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I J FACULTY RECITAL FRANCES BIBLE, Mezzo-Soprano JEANETTE LOMBARD, Soprano THOMAS JABER, Piano Monday, April 16, 1990 8:00p.m. in Hamman Hall s!Jr~rd RICE UNNERSITY SchOol Of Music PROGRAM Ombra maifu (Serse) George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Miss Bible -f --r Lebe wohl Hugo Wolf In dem Schatten meiner Locken ( 1860-1903) Verborgenheit Ich hab in Penna einen Liebsten wohnen ~ ~ Miss Lombard . t.. ~ Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) Miss Lombard and Miss Bible Two arias from Samson et Dalila Camille Saint-Saens Amour, viens aider mafaiblesse! ( 1835-1921) M on coeur s 'ouvre a ta voix ~ · Miss Bible z t~ ~6 INTERMISSION ~..,- ~ ~ ,, Chanson d'Avril Georges Bizet ( 1838-1875) La Cloche Camille Saint-Saens Miss Lombard ' r Litanei Franz Schubert ~ ~~ Die Manner sind mechant ( 1797-1828) ~ ........- Du bist wie eine Blume Robert Schumann """ ·~~ Widmung . (1810-1856) Miss Bible " . r-< Two arias from Tosca Giacomo Puccini Non Ia sospiri Ia nostra cas etta (1858-1924) Vissi d'arte Miss Lombard Fu Ia sorte dell'armi Giuseppe Verdi ( 1813-1901) Miss Lombard and Miss Bible BIOGRAPHIES FRANCES BIBLE is Artist-in-Residence at The Shepherd School ofMusic. Miss Bible is a graduate of the Institute of Musical Art ofthe lui/liard School, receiving the Alice Breen Memorial Prize for the highest rating in singing and a five-year • Fellowship at the lui/liard Graduate School . Miss Bible was a member of the New York City Opera from 1948 to 1980 (7nd is the only singer to receive a citation commemorating her artistic contribution to that company. She has sung with many of the world's leading opera companies such as the Vienna Staatsoper, Glyndebourne, Dublin, Karlsruhe Staatsoper, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, and Miami. She has concertiied extensively in the United States, Canada and Australia, and has sung with most of the leading orch estras, including the London Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Houston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Toronto, Montreal, Buffalo, Sydney, and Melbourne, and with such conductors as Bernstein, lorda, Krips, Leinsdorf, Martinon, Mehta, Ormandy, Pritchard, Rodzinski, Schippers, Serafin, Steinberg and Stokowski. During Miss Bible's second year in opera, she received the Woman of the Year Merit Award for Signal Achievement in Opera. At the instigation of Maestro Tullio Serafin, the New York City Opera mounted a revival ofRossini's La Cenerentola especially for Miss Bible. This production was the first in the United States after a hiatus of126 years. Miss Bible has created the leading role in several world premieres, among them, The Ballad of Baby Doe and The Crucible. Winthrop Sargeant ofthe New Yorker Magazine wrote: "Frances Bible is one ofthe supreme artists singing anywhere today." In December 1987, Miss Bible made her debut with Theatre Under The Stars as the Mother Superior in The Sound ofMusic . • Miss Bible has recordings on Deutsche Grammaphon, Angel, Decca and MGM labels. She is listed in the New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Who's Who ofAmerican Women (first edition), Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Men and Women of Distinction. Soprano JEANETTE LOMBARD was the recipient of two consecutive Fulbright scholarships for study of opera in Italy, where she made her Italian debut with Teatro dell'Opera di Roma at Spoleto. The Italian government awarded her an additional grant to attend the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome, and while there and later in Vienna, Miss Lombard concentrated on the study of song repertoire. Her Spoleto debut was followed by numerous concert appearances in Italy, Austria and Germany, including engagements with RAJ (Italian Radio) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Together with her husband, tenor Eugene Talley-Schmidt, she recorded the complete Schumann duets for soprano and tenor, which received high critical acclaim in the American Record Guide. She has also received critical praise for her many concert, oratorio and recital appearances, as well as for her portrayals of the heroines of Puccini, Mozart and Verdi, which include Tosca, Butterfly, Donna Anna, Fiordiligi, Violetta, Lady MacBeth, and the Leonoras of Trovatore and La Forza del Destino. Miss Lombard was invited to be soloist with the Florida Bicentennial Orchestra at Kennedy Center, where she also appeared as soloist in Houston Ballet's production of Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder. Miss Lombard has performed and premiered the works of many contemporary f ( . composers. Included among them was the New YorkpremiereofMeyer Kupferman's A Nietzsche Cycle with the New York Philomusica at Lincoln Center and the world ,. J premiere (with accompanist Mary Norris) of Ross Lee Finney's Chamber Music (text by James Joyce). Miss Lombard has been a member of the Sheph~rdSchool faculty since 1982. THOMAS JABER is Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Vocal Coaching at The Shepherd School of Music. In addition to the responsibili ties of coaching graduate students and seniors, Mr. Jaber conducts two choral groups at the Shepherd School, the Rice Chorale and the Shepherd Singers. Before his recent move to Houston, Mr. Jaber was Music Director of the Opera Theatre of Temple University for two seasons. He has earned degrees in piano from Arkansas State University and Indiana University, and was granted the Performer's Certifi cate in Accompanying from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was a member of the faculty from 1976 to 1988. Mr. Jaber was also a vocal coach and conductor at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Artsfrom 1977 to 1986. He was chosen as vocal coach for the Opera Company of Philadelphia! Luciano Pavarotti International Competition and also served as assistant chorus master for the Opera Company of Philadelphia. , In addition to Children's Opera Outreach programs, Mr. Jaber has appeared in recital with many ofthe Philadelphia area'sfinest performers. As a keyboard artist, he was the continuo organist in recording three cantatas ofJ . S. Bach with Helmuth Rilling, performed solo organ recitals in the Middle East and with the Concerto Soloists Chamber Ensemble of Philadelphia, and for ten seasons was head of the Accompanying staff at the Fred Waring Summer Music Workshops. From 1978 to 1988, Mr. Jaber was the Organist and Choirmaster of the First Presbyterian + - Church in Philadelphia. .