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I compare you to a [coin] that runs from hand to hand; DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC & THEATRE which finally blurs, and, believing it false, - Translation by Albert Combrink Asturiana (Asturian) To see whether it would console me, I drew near a green pine, To see whether it would console me. Seeing me weep, it wept; And the pine, being green, seeing me weep, wept. - Translation by Albert Combrink Senior Recital Jota They say we don’t love each other because they never see us talking But they only have to ask both your heart and mine. Leighton Ware Now I bid you farewell your house and your window too and even ... your mother soprano Farewell, my sweetheart until tomorrow. - Translation by Albert Combrink Jodi Goble Benjamin Schiff Platt is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. Platt is known for his roles on Broadway including The Book of Mormon and Dear piano Evan Hansen. He later won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his lead role of Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen. Platt is the youngest actor in history to win this award solo. Platt was born in Los Angeles, California. His father is Marc Platt, who is a film, theater and television producer. After graduating High School in 2011, Platt attended Columbia University in New York, but dropped out after six weeks to fulfill his contract withThe Book of Mormon. In 2017, Platt signed with Atlantic Records and released his debut studio album Sing to Me Instead in March of 2019. Older came from this album and has received numerous praises for the passionate lyrics and the emotionally October 24, 2020 moving melody line. In Older, Platt talks about the eagerness to grow up. It’s 4:30 pm so easy to be hopeful for the future and close yourself off from trying new things in the moment that may be life changing. These lyrics show the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall importance of living life day by day and enjoying every moment instead of wishing to grow up and accomplish things in the future. Program being the most preeminent woman composer of her era in the United States. Beach forged a path for all women composers in the United States. In uomini, in soldati Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Take, O take those lips away shows Beach’s style, consisting of disjoint- from Così fan tutte (1756-1791) ed melodies and modulating harmonies. These characteristics show the true Romanticism behind Beach’s writing. With a beautifully expressive and flowing piano line, the voice takes over with high tessitura and modulating harmonies to tell the story of heartbreak and Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen Clara Schumann betrayal. Liebst du um Schönheit (1819-1896) Lorelei Manuel de Falla is considered to be the most distinguished Spanish composer of the early 20th century. De Falla’s style took a turn from Chansons de Shakespeare Ernest Chausson Romantic to Neoclassical during his active years of composing. De Falla’s compositions incorporate the perfect combination of poetry, Chanson d’amour (1855-1899) enthusiasm, and passion to best represent the Spanish culture. Chanson de clowns Chanson d’Ophélia De Falla’s musical career started when he began taking piano lessons from his mother. He then moved to Madrid to continue studying piano and composition with Felipe Pedrell, who influenced him in Orpheus with his lute William Schuman his composition style. In 1907, De Falla moved to Paris where he met (1910-1992) Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Ravel and Debussy highly influenced De Falla as he started composing. In Paris is where De Falla wrote his first piano pieces and songs. He then moved back to Madrid in 1914, where he wrote his most influential pieces, and Take, O take those lips away Amy Beach proceeded to retire in 1922. (1867-1944) Siete canciones populares españolas, or Seven Spanish Folksongs, was written in 1914, the year De Falla returned to Spain from France. This Selections from Siete Canciones populares Españolas Manuel de Fall set is one of the most frequently performed sets of Spanish-language art songs. Each song contains influence from different parts of Spain, El paño moruno (1876-1946) making the set diverse within the Spanish language. Seguidilla Asturiana El Paño Moruno (The Moorish Cloth) Jota On the fine cloth in the store A stain has fallen; It sells at a lesser price, Older Ben Platt Because it has lost its value. Alas! (b. 1993) - Translation by Albert Combrink Seguidilla Murciana Who has a roof of glass This recital is given in partial fulfillment of a should not throw stones Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Music Education. to their neighbor’s (roof). Leighton is a student of Professor Janet Alcorn. Let us be muleteers; no one accepts! It could be that on the road we will meet! For your great inconstancy, And let my bones whiten in the desert. Program Notes and Translations For fear that on my tomb, alas! true lovers Might shed too many vain tears. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in Austria, was a Classical composer - Translation by Maurice Bouchor of operas, concertos, symphonies, sonatas, and oratorios. His father, the successful violinist and composer Leopold Mozart, started tutoring him on piano at the age of 3, and the young Wolfgang began publicly performing Chanson d’Ophélia (Ophelia’s Song) on multiple instruments at the age of 6. Mozart’s first composition was He is dead, having suffered much. A Minuet and Trio in G Major, composed when he was just 5 years old. He is gone, that is a fact. This composition eventually made it into his Requiem Mass, the last At his feet a stone and at his head composition he composed before his death in 1791. A grass-green turf. On the snow blanket are plentifully sewn Così fan tutte is a comedic opera about infidelity versus fidelity, love, and A thousand scented flowers. the battle of the sexes. In the Act I aria “In uomini, in soldati,” Despina, Which, before going with him into the earth without return. the young sisters’ maid, tells the sisters that men only want women for In their bright youth their own pleasure and their fiancés will not be loyal to them while away Drank, as if fresh rain drops. at war. The tears of true love. - Translation by Maurice Bouchor In men, in soldiers In men, in soldiers, you hope for loyalty? Do not be heard, even for charity! William Schuman was an American composer, born in New York in Cut from the same cloth, every one of them, 1910. Schuman began composing in high school where he formed a jazz The leaves, furniture, and fickle breezes ensemble playing the banjo and violin. He later studied with Roy Harris are more stable than men! at Juilliard. Schuman’s biggest influencer in his compositions was Serge False tears, deceptive looks, Koussevitzky, who was a Russian conductor and composer. Misleading voices, charming lies Are their primary qualities! Schuman wrote many works in every musical genre, and his style In that we dislike their pleasure, directly reflects that of structure, dynamism and sense of line. His earlier Then they despise us, and deny us affection, works consisted of a harmonically conservative style and his later works It is futile to ask the barbarians for pity! consisted of more dissonance and polytonality. In his later compositions, Let us females, pay them back with equal money Schuman took many leaps, such as incorporating jazz and folk traditions This evil indiscreet race. into his works. Schuman was recognized in many ways for these distinct Let’s love for convenience, for vanity! style characteristics. His secular cantata A Free Song received the first - Translation by Aaron Green Pulitzer Prize in music in 1943. Schuman also received the National Medal of Arts in 1987. Clara Schumann was a 19th-century German composer and pianist. Schuman’s 1945 setting of the Shakespearian poem Orpheus with his lute Schumann is regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the starts to get into his dissonance and polytonality era. While the Romantic era. She composed orchestral works, chamber music, German accompaniment is stable and droning, it imitates the plucking of a lute. Lieder, choral works, and character pieces for solo piano. The vocal line follows a mysterious yet intriguing feeling of Orpheus and his otherworldly qualities. Most of Schumann’s art songs reference the theme of love she had for her husband Robert, also a composer. Though Robert suffered from intense mental illness, Clara stayed true to him. She expressed many of her Amy Marcy Beach, born in New Hampshire, was an American emotions from their marriage through her compositions. composer and pianist in the 19th- and 20th century. Beach started composing melodies on the piano at the age of 4 and began taking piano Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen (He Came in Storm and Rain) lessons at the age of 6. Beach composed over 150 works consisting of He came in storm and rain; choral works, church music, chamber works, cantatas, and songs to the My anxious heart beat against his. words of Shakespeare. Beach is known not only for her Gaelic Symphony, How could I have known that his path should unite itself with mine? which is the first symphony by an American woman composer, but for He came in storm and rain; He only looks up to the heights. Audaciously he took my heart. I think at last the waves swallow Did he take mine? The boatman and his boat; Did I take his? And that, with her singing, Both drew near to each other.

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