Dossier DR 2023 039 - Little elegies

File consists of a program and recording of an event that took place in Walter Hall.

Performers: Monica Whicher, soprano ; Steven Philcox, piano

Program:
Part 1:

• Scheidend, op. 9, no. 6 / Felix Mendelssohn ; Johann Gustav Droysen
• Little elegy / Ned Rorem ; Elinor Wylie
• Velvet shoes / Ray Lustig, Elinor Wylie
• Evening primrose. I remember / Steven Sondheim
• To a poet. On parent knees, op. posthumous / Gerald Finzi, attr. William Jones after the Persian
• Five Millay songs. Branch by brach / H. Leslie Adams, Edna St. Vincent Millay
• The New ghost / Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fredegond Shove
• The Lordly Hudson / Ned Rorem, Paul Goodman

Part 2:

• Hjertets melodier, op. 5, no. 3 / Jeg elsker Dig (Edvard Grieg, Hans Christian Andersen)
• Peer Gynt, op. 23. Solveig's lullaby / Edvard Grieg, Henrik Ibsen
• Five songs from Canadian traditional collections. J'ai perdu mon amant / arr. John Beckwith
• Asteri mou, feggari mou / Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos Gatsos
• Three songs for Diane Kaish, in memorium, 2015. Sonnet : Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring / Sheila Silver, Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Down by the Salley gardens / Ivor Gurney, William Butler Yeats
• My feet may take a little while / Errollyn Wallen
• Nature boy / eden ahbez, arr. Sharon Minemoto..