Marshall Digital Scholar All Performances Performance Collection Fall 11-20-2013 Marshall University Music Department Presents a Senior Recital, Michael Rose, tenor Michael Rose Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/music_perf Part of the Fine Arts Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Rose, Michael, "Marshall University Music Department Presents a Senior Recital, Michael Rose, tenor" (2013). All Performances. Book 297. http://mds.marshall.edu/music_perf/297 This Recital is brought to you for free and open access by the Performance Collection at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Performances by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Program SCHOOL of MUSIC and THEATRE Deeper and Deeper Still George F. Handel Waft Her, Angels (1685-1759) fromjephtha Angela Scoulas, violin Olivia Hay, violin MUSIC Dr. E. Reed Smith, viola Dean Pauley, cello Franz Schubert Presents a: Auf Dem Strom (1797-1828) Nicholas Bragg, horn Salut! Demeure chaste et pure Charles Gounod Senior Recital from Faust (1818-1893) ***10 minute intermission*** Michael Rose, tenor Amore o grillo Giacomo Puccini from Madama Butterfly (1858-1924) Assisted by: Four Hymns Ralph Vaughan Williams Mark Smith, pianist I. Lord, Come Away! (1872-1958) II. Who is this Fair One? III. Come Love, Come Lord IV. Evening Hymn Dr. E. Reed Smith, viola Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening Samuel Barber Sure on this Shining Night (1910-1981) The Promise of Living Aaron Copland from The Tender Land (1900-1990) Wednesday, November 20,2013 Trinity Episcopal Church Laura Campbell, soprano Mycah Pemberton, mezzo-soprano 8:00p.m. Robert Nunez, baritone Mr. Robert Wray, bass a> This program is presented by the College of Fine Arts through d1e ***************************** This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Bachelor of Fine Arts School of Music and Theatre with d1e support of student activity funds. For degree in music performance. Mr. Rose is a student in the voice studio of Mr. Robert Wray more information about this or other music events, please call * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (304) 696-3117, or view our website at www.matshall.edu/cofa/music. Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was an Italian composer whose operas are Program Notes: among the most frequently performed in the standard rep~rtoire. Mada·m·a . Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts by Gtaco~o Puccmt, w~th George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) was a composer famous for his operas an Italian libretto by Luigi lllica and Giuseppe Giacosa. In the ana Amore o gnllo and oratorios. Jephtha is an oratorio written in 1751 based on the story of Pinkerton admits to Sharpless (a friend) that he does not know whether he is Jephtha from the biblical text of Judges, Chapter eleven. The story centers on really in love or just infatuated, but he is bewitched with Butterfly's innocence, Jephtha's promise to God that if he is delivered victorious from battle, that he charm and beauty, and will do "no great harm, even if Butterfly falls in love." will sacrifice the first creature he encounters upon his return. Upon his return Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was an English composer he is met by his daughter !phis. In the oratorio the character of Jephtha's of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was recitative "Deeper and deeper still" and "Waft her, Angels" occur separately in also a collector of English folk music and song. This collecting activity the work. However, during the 19th century these two separate parts of the influenced both his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, in which he oratorio were often performed together in concert, as if the recitative directly included many folk song arrangements as hymn tunes, and several of his own preceded the aria. In the recitative]ephtha expressed his woe and grief over original compositions. Vaughan Williams' music has often been said to be what he knows he must do, and curses himself for ever making such a promise. characteristically English. Four Hymns, for tenor voice, piano, and In the aria,]ephtha pleads with angels to gently carry his daughter to heaven viola obbligato, is a liturgical song cycle finished in 1911. In setting the four and to keep her safe there forever. hymns to music, Vaughan Williams chose poems by Jeremy Taylor, Isaac Watts, Richard Crashaw, and Robert Bridges (a translation from the Greek). Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) was an Austrian composer. Although Schubert only lived to be thirty-two years old, he wrote almost 1,000 works in a Samuel Osmond Barber II (1910 -1981) was an American composer of remarkably short career. The only concert given in Schubert's lifetime entirely orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings has earned a devoted to his own music was given, appropriately enough, on the first permanent place in the concert repertory of orchestras. Also widely pe:formed anniversary of the death of Beethoven on March 26, 1828. For the is his Knoxville: Summer of1915, a work for soprano and orchestra, whtch sets a occasion, Schubert presented a cunning mixture of vocal and instrumental prose text by James Agee. Barber was no stranger to settin~ the text of poets to music, including several newly composed works. Among these were his setting music, and that is certainly seen in his settings of the Amencan Poet Robert of Ludwig Rellstab's "Auf dem Strom" (On the River), a poem originally given Frost's Poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", and James Agee's poem to Beethoven for musical setting, but which Beethoven did not live long enough "Sure on this Shining Night." In "Stopping by woods ... " Barber depicts the to accomplish. Written with the high tenor Ludwig Titze and hornist Josef Lewy subjects' footsteps and his horses' bells, in the piano part while the singer acts in mind (the pianist would of course have been the as narrator. Agee's poem "Sure on this Shining Night" is one set by numerous composer), Schubert created a work that takes Rellstab's poem of death and composers and even Barber edited this song into a piece for piano and SATB transfiguration and composes it in the memory of Beethoven. chorus. Charles-Fran~ois Gounod (1818-1893) was a French composer who wrote in Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer, composition may genres. Perhaps the one Gounod is best known for is opera. Gounod wrote teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other his first opera, Sapho, in 1851. However, he had no great theatrical success American music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of until Faust (1859), derived from Goethe. This remains the composition for composition, Copland is often referred to as "the Dean of American which he is best known and although it took a while to achieve popularity. Composers." The Tender Land is an opera with music by Aaron Copland and Faust is a grand opera in five acts with libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel libretto by Erik Johns. The opera tells of a farm family in the Midwest of Carre from Carre's play Faust et Marguerite. It is also loosely based on Johann the United States. Copland was inspired to write this opera after viewing the Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1. It debuted at the Theatre Lyrique on the Depression-era photographs of Walker Evans and reading James Agee's "L~t Us Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19 March 1859. The aria Salut! Demeure Now Praise Famous Men". It premiered on Aprill, 1954 at the New York C1ty chaste et pure is sung by Dr. Faust idealizing Marguerite as a pure child of Opera. The most popular song from the opera is a quintet, "The Promise of nature. Living." Charles Gounod: Franz Schubert: Auf Dem Strom Salut! Demeur chaste et pure Salut, demeure chaste et pure I greet you, home chaste and pure, Nimm die letzen AbschiedskOsse, Take these last farewell kisses Und die wehenden, die GrUsse, And the wafted greetings Salut, demeure chaste et pure I gre~t you, home chaste and pure, Ou se devine Ia presence Where is manifested the presence Die ich noch ans Ufer sende, That I send to the shore D'une iime innocente et divine Of a soul, innocent and divine Eh' dein Fuss sich scheidend wende! Before your foot turns to leave! Schon wird von des Stromes Wogen Already the boat is pulled away By the waves' rapid current; Que de richesse en cette pauvrete How much richness in this poverty Rasch der Nachen fortgezogen, En ce reduit, que de felicite In this retreat, how much happiness Doch den tranendunklen Blick But the longing forever draws back Que de richesse How much richness Zieht die Sehnsucht stets zurOck! My gaze, clouded with tears. Que de richesse en cette pauvrete What richness in this poverty En ce reduit, que de felicite Reduce in this bliss Und so tragt mich denn die Welle And so the waves bear me away Fort mit unerflehter Schnelle. With relentless speed. 0 Nature, 0 nature, it is here Ach, schon ist die Flur verschwunden, Ah, already the meadows C'est Ia que tu Ia fis si belle That you have made her so beautiful Wo ieh selig Sie gefunden! Where, ove:t:ioyed, I found her have vanished C'est Ia que cette enfant It is here that this child Ewig hin, ihr Wonnetage! Days of bliss, you are gone forever! A donni so us ton aile, Slept under you wing Hoffnungsleer verhallt die Klage Hopelessly my lament echoes A grandi sous tes yeux.