Spring 2007 Music Department Calendar of Events

May 13, Noon Tiffany Lawrence, Senior Voice Recital+ May 13, 7 PM Sean Brown, Junior Horn Recital+ May 14, 7 PM Nathan Walyer, Senior Trombone Recital+ May 15, 7 PM Mark Kellogg, Guest Trombone Artist Recital+ May 16, 5:30 PM Guest Artist: Claire Vangelisti, Voice Recital+ May 16, 7 PM Percussion Ensemble Concert* May 17, 7 PM Composers’ Concert+ May 17, 8 PM Guest Jazz Group: Reptet Concert* May 18, 7 PM Jazz Nite I Concert* May 19, 7 PM James Durkee, Faculty Guitar Recital+ May 20, Noon Virginia Tech Memorial Benefit Concert* May 20, 2 PM Trista Delo & Samantha Sobrowsky, Joint Viola Recital+ May 20, 4 PM Combined Choral Concert* May 22, 5 PM Danny Helseth, Euphonium Recital and Master Class+ May 22, 7 PM Jazz Combo Nite+ May 23, Noon Guest Percussion Group: Primal Mates Concert+ May 23, 7 PM Kairos Quartet Concert+ May 24, 5 PM Josh Wilson, Senior Trombone Recital+ May 24, 7 PM Symphonic and Concert Bands Concert* May 25, 5:30 PM Chamber Strings Recital* May 28, 5:30 PM Amber Johnson, Graduate Horn Recital+ May 29, Noon President’s Memorial Service+ May 29, 7 PM Horn Studio Recital+ May 30, 6 PM Trevor Faraone, Senior Trumpet Recital+ May 30, 7 PM Chamber Orchestra Concert* May 31, 7 PM Brass Blowout* June 1, 7 PM Jazz Nite II* June 2, 11 AM Kittitas Valley Youth Orchestra Concert* June 2, Noon Lenny Price, Faculty Saxophone Recital+

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Central Washington University

Department of Music Presents:

Rachel Alvord Senior Voice Recital

Mia Spencer, piano

Melissa Thompson, flute

Music Building Recital Hall Saturday, May 12, 2007

4:00 PM

Program

“Tune the soft melodious lute” from Jephtha Handel Dolce Amore, bendato Dio Cavalli Luci vezzose Gaffi Die Lotosblume R. Schumann Der Nußbaum Lorelei C. Schumann “Oh! quante volte” from I Capuleti e i Montecchi Bellini Three Irish Folksong Settings Corigliano I. The Salley Gardens II. The Foggy Dew III. She Moved Through the Fair

Melissa Thompson, flute Tant que je t’aimais… Canteloube J’ai un coquin de Frère… Cette eau de rose… Lou baïlèro The year’s at the spring Beach There are fairies at the bottom of our garden Lehmann “Steal me, sweet thief” from The Old Maid and the Thief Menotti

Rachel Alvord is from the studio of Dr. Diane Thueson Reich

Songs grouped together are a set; please hold applause until the completion of each set.

Thank you.

Please turn off and refrain from using your cell phone or other noise-making devices during the performance.

Please only enter and exit between pieces.

Special thanks to Dr. Reich for all you have taught me, to my family, thank you for all your support

and encouragement. I especially want to thank my fiancé, Roman, for all his patience and support. I

could not have done it without you!

Happy birthday to my sister, Karlee.

Translations

Dolce Amore, bendato Dio

God of Love, fair blindfold Cupid, Cease to make me sigh and pine, Ah, Send an arrow its own hurt healing Like Achilles’ merciful lance. With the radiant glowing glance Of two lovely eyes unfeeling Pierce no more this heart of mine, Ah… Lucci vezzose

Eyes so alluring, Will ye forever Your scorn enduring, On me bestow? Cold and unfeeling, Will ye then never, Some mercy show? Die Lotosblume

The lotus flower is afraid Of the sun’s splendor, And with bowed head, Dreaming, she awaits the night.

The moon, he is her lover; He wakes her with his light, And to him she happily unveils Her innocent flower face.

She blooms and glows and gleams, And gazes silently upward; She sends forth her fragrance and weeps and trembles With love and love’s pain. Der Nussbaum

A nut tree grows in front of the house. Fragrant and airy It spreads out its leafy branches.

Many lovely blossoms grow on it. Gentle breezes Come to caress them lovingly.

They whisper about a girl who Thinks all night And all day of, alas, she herself knows not what.

They whisper. Who is able to Discern such a quiet gesture? They whisper of a bridegroom and of next year.

The girl listens, the tree rustles. Longing, imagining She sinks, smiling, into sleep and dreams. Lorelei

I do not know the reason That I feel so sad; An old tale from long ago Continues to haunt my mind.

The air is cool and it grows dark, And quietly flows the Rhine; The peak of the mountain glistens In the evening sunshine.

A most beautiful maiden sits So wonderously up there, Her golden treasure sparkles, She combs her golden hair.

She combs it with a comb of gold While she sings a song That has a wonderfully strange And powerful melody.

The boatman in his little skiff Is seized with longings, and violent dispair He does not look at the rocks ahead, He looks only up at the heights.

I think, in the end that the waves Swallow the boatman and his boat And that this was done By the Lorelei and her singing.

Translations continued…

“Oh! quante volte” from I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Here I am, dressed brilliantly… Here I am adorned… Like a victim at the altar. Oh! If only I could Fall like a sacrifice at the base of the alter! O nuptial flames, So horrid to me, so fateful, May you ah! May you be my funeral torches. I burn… a blaze, a furnace Completely engulfs me. A cooling breeze I seek vainly! Where are you, Romeo? To what land have you gone? Where, where shall I send you my yearning cries?

Oh! How often, oh! Very often I call for you, crying to heaven! With what ardor I look for you And mislead my desire! A vision of your face, Ah! The sunlight seems to me: Ah! The winds that drift round me Seem to me to be your breath.

Tant que je t’aimais…

As much as I love you, I promise you, my love And now, I am yours I play you the piccolo J’ai un coquin de frère…

I have a mischievous brother, that makes me mad. He says to my mother that I love my shepherd. Cette eau de Rose…

Spring water will kill you, my pretty Spring water will kill you, etc. Do not drink water, my pretty, my pretty Take a glass of wine, it will do you good! etc. Le Baïlèro

Shepherd across the river, you don’t seem to be afraid, sing the Bailero. Indeed I’m not, and you too, sing the Bailero.