In a Woman's Words

Performed at The Blue Gallery

April 2024

Performers

Sarah Knott, mezzo-soprano

Linda Turpening, piano

Program

“I bought this suitcase in New York” from Flight Jonathan Dove (b.1952)

La chanson d’Evé Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

• I. Paradis

• II. Prima Verba

• IX. Crépuscule

• X. O mort, poussière d’etoiles

“Du bist der Lenz” from Die Walküre Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

-INTERMISSION-

Songs my Mother Taught Me Charles Ives (1874-1954)

“Brittle, Bright” Op. 162 (2018)* Bradley A. Bombardier (1960-2019)

poems by Marion Thompson van Steenwyk (1907-1976)

• Singing Mountain

• Quietness

• Youth Died Today

• fragment

• If Some Day You Should Come

• Trees in Autumn

• Now that the Play is Over

*New York premiere