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Faculty Recital: Michelle Vought, Soprano Nancy Pounds, Piano Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData School of Music Programs Music Spring 3-6-2019 Faculty Recital: Michelle Vought, Soprano Nancy Pounds, Piano Michelle Vought Soprano Illinois State University Nancy Pounds Piano Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Vought, Michelle Soprano and Pounds, Nancy Piano, "Faculty Recital: Michelle Vought, Soprano Nancy Pounds, Piano" (2019). School of Music Programs. 3818. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp/3818 This Concert Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Music Programs by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Illinois State University College of Fine Arts • .chool of Music Charles W. Bolen Faculty Recital Series Michelle Vought, Soprano • • Nancy Pounds, Piano . ,. Kemp Recital Hall March 6, 2019 Wednesday Evening 8:00p.m. This is the one hundred and third program of the 2018-2019 season. Program Program Notes Please silence all electronic devices for the duration of the concert. Thank you . Oleopatra & The Plastic Surgeon • • Tm bf IBDOf stee1.e Brokaw Ob.Isis Ob Alllony, my love! Cleopatra and the Plastic Surgeon (2018) Danielle Fisher How many reiacamabcm led me to this park by the Cbicago River, You could 001 bold your V1Siblc shape olllSidc lbc pbsric surgeon's office? Yet here I am OD the Chu:•ga River, (born 1986) my shape growmg nuire visible by the 1D1J111CDl lyrics by Nancy Steele Brokaw Well, Dr. Shiny of Che me! "Mic/iigan AV<!tlut". I commandal you-- Whal mallc'. 1 am all forgotten. Judith Dicker, oboe "Bow before me!"- and you did ool The brigbl day is done, Bow, for I am ... Clcop3tml and WC Dre for darlt. Julie Gray, trombone Queen of Egypt. Ruler of the Nile. Paramour of Antony. H1stOl)''s first cclcbnty Came. friend, come. poiSODOus asp. bear me away &om this Chicago River. My beauoy is pasl tbe ages, Dr Shiny. Where the sirem arc 001 muses. but real sounds! And yet you band me this bracb=, And tbc block and while cars make lines along the mads. shiny as a beetle in the sun. Filled with paintings of the bkc-facal, See, a,p? A cn:,wd gathers, wilh tbcir shioy rectangular lllll:ing Kavanaugh (2019) Martha Horst wbc,t,b:liml women ofa certaiu •&•· dcviccs.scnding my image oYtr the bending world. (born 1967) Aje. Ap:! Age? Gathcrn><111d. "Age cannot wither nor custom stale btr iufinitc varidy ." Well, dcsrly, you an: gathercd round. 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Whal mancrs of alchemy allows you 10 plun,p elixin tDIO my witbcringl A5 sweet as balm. ;,,,. soft as air 1go. Yet dnokyouBClfoot so clever. Dr Shiny. Look after my make We were maJtelt. too, 11 mummifytag. at age defying, • ,. But we wailed for death. This time. Farewell. About the Artists . ... performance outreach program. This organization brings together an international ensemble of performers who perform as the Maryland Chamber Winds for an annual concert series in Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland. In her spare time, Nancy Steele Brokaw is playwright/journalist/writer. Brokaw has had eig. e enjoys an active freelancing career as well as gardening with her two cats. innovative children's operas produced by Prairie Fire Theatre/ Illinois Wesleyan • University. Among them are The Sky Is Falling And I'm Not Even Kidding! and Ms. Horst is a composer who has devoted herself to the performance, creation, Baobob. They have toured to tens of thousands of Illinois school children over the I~ and instruction of classical music. Her music has also been performed by last eight years and How to Be a Super Hero is set to be performed around 50 times musicians and groups such as the Fromm Players, CUBE, Earplay, Alea III, this l\Iay. For the last seven years, the University of California-Merced has 1l Empyrean Ensemble, Chicago Composers Orchestra, Susan Narucki, Left Coast presented her operas to thousands of grade school students and will again in 2019. Ensemble, and Dal Niente. l\Is. Horst has won the Copland Award, the Brokaw is again writing Theatre for Young Audience and green shows for the Symphony Number One Commissioning Prize, the Alea III International Illinois Shakespeare Festival for the 2019 season. In 2018 those include Double, Composition Competition, and the Rebecca Clarke International Composition Double, a story of Shakespeare and Abraham Llncoln, Henry 1-2-34-5, and Will in Competition for her work Cloister Songs, based on 18th century utopian poetry. She the Bachelorette. In May 2014, Fort Worth Opera Frontiers showcased Fertile Ground, has held fellowships at the l\IacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, an original opera for which she wrote the libretto, a collaboration with composer Wellesley Composers Conference, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and David Vayo. Opera Plus called it "thorough and complex" and said it Darrington International School in the UK Her works have been recorded by the "immediately portrayed a gripping story. "Brokaw is a longtime contributor to The Avanti Trio, Durward Ensemble, Symphony Number One Wind Ensemble, and Pantagraph and Illinois Wesleyan Magazine, as well as the author of the award­ pianist Lara Downes. \Vhile living in San Francisco, Ms. Horst served as a winning middle-grade novel Leaving Emma, (Clarion/Houghton l'vlifflin). professional member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus under the direction f Michael Tilson Thomas. She served as a soloist in the PBS presentation of The McLean County Abraham Llncoln Bicentennial Commission hired Brokaw t. weeney Todd starring Neil Patrick Harris and Patti LuPone. Dr. Horst currently co-author Llncoln '.r in Town! For 17 years, Brokaw has been resident playwright fo • Holiday Spectacular, Inc., writing three or more shows a year. teaches composition and theory at Illinois State University and has also taught at the University of California, Davis, East Carolina University, and San Francisco She wrote grade school adaptations of Mozart's Magic Flute and Marriage of Figaro, State University. She has studied with Ross Bauer, David Rakowski, Mario and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel for Illinois Wesleyan University productions. Davidovsky, Milton Babbitt, and Donald l\Iartino and has degrees in composition She serves on the Board of Directors for IWU's Associates Board, the Promise from the University of California, Davis and Stanford University. Council (removing barriers to learning in local schools), the Stevenson Lecture Series and is a member of Normal Rotary Club. She was recently a drummer for Charismatic soprano Michelle Vought has earned an excellent reputation an older adult rock band. Brokaw lives in Bloomington, Illinois. worldwide and brings a fresh sincerity and captivating vitality to every performance from opera house to concert hall to cabaret. l\Iost recently, Dr. Danielle Fisher grew up in Normal, IL where she received dual degrees in l\Iusic Vought performed the world premiere of a mini opera written for her entitled Education and Composition/Theory from Illinois State University. She recently Cleopatra and the Plastic Surgeon by composer and ISU alumna Danielle Fisher in graduated with an M.M. in l\Iusic Education at the University of North Texas Denton, Texas. where she performed with the W1nd Symphony, Graduate Woodwind Quintet, and served as principal horn in the Concert Orchestra. Known for her innovative programming, Dr. Vought returned to Provincetown, ~ Massachusetts for the renowned Women's Week Festival for her 12th year to do ultiple performances of her unique one woman show "l\Iadame l\Ionsieur." Before beginning her band directing career in Alvarado, Texas, Fisher managed.
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