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date: June 5, 2010
With our four young performers, we opened the fourth annual Bayfield Festival of Song with a “Coffee Concert”. Songs and piano music for the beginning of the day were very varied and included obvious items (like Oh! what a beautiful mornin’) and some less well-known, like Gerald Finzi’s evocation of the wonder of a child, The Salutation.
SONG | ARTIST | COMPOSER | POET |
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Sleepers, wake! (Cantata 140, Wachet auf!) | Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Bach, Johann Sebastian, arr. Bantock, Granville | n/a |
Oh! what a beautiful mornin’ (Oklahoma) | Garvanliev, Vasil, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Rodgers, Richard | Hammerstein II, Oscar |
Early in the morning | Huang, Erica Iris, mezzo; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Rorem, Ned | Hillyer, Robert |
Duetto de l’âne (Véronique) | Bradley, Leslie Ann, soprano; Garvanliev, Vasil, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Messager, André | Duval, Georges / Vanloo, Albert |
Träumerei, Op.15/7 (Kinderszenen) | Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Schumann, Robert | n/a |
The Salutation, Op.8/5 (Dies natalis) | Mutya, Frank, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Finzi, Gerald | Traherne, Thomas |
Andante and variations in G, K501 | Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | n/a |
Morgen! Op.27/4 | Bradley, Leslie Ann, soprano; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Strauss, Richard | Mackay. John Henry |
Morning Mood (Peer Gynt) | Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Grieg, Edvard | n/a |
Slavonic Dance in C (Op.46, Book 1/1) | Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Dvořák, Antonín | n/a |
Let’s do it! (Paris) | Bradley, Leslie Ann, soprano; Huang, Erica Iris, mezzo; Mutya, Frank, tenor; Garvanliev, Vasil, baritone; Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Porter, Cole | Porter, Cole |
España – ENCORE | Bradley, Leslie Ann, soprano; Huang, Erica Iris, mezzo; Mutya, Frank, tenor; Garvanliev, Vasil, baritone; Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Chabrier, Emmanuel | Adenis, Eugène |