Program Sponsor

Madeleine P. and Harvey R. Plonsker

American Mastery

Monday, August 13, 2012
8:00 PM
Bennett Gordon Hall

Reserved $10
No lawn sales
Ticket & dining package $40 (Promo code DINING)

You can make the concert a complete evening out when you purchase the concert/dining package for $40 per performance. This convenient package comes complete with dinner in the Freehling Room Patio followed by the performance in Bennett Gordon Hall.

Gates open at 6:00 PM


Program
LARSEN
(b. 1950)
Selections from ME (Brenda Ueland)

II. Childhood
III. Adolescence
VII. Art (Life is Love…)

Kathryn Guthrie Demos, soprano
Renate Rohlfing, piano
 
IVES
(1875-1954)
 
Tom Sails Away (Ives)
 
RADOSAVLJEVIC
(b. 1989)
 
Corner Lake (Sun)
 
RADOSAVLJEVIC The Eagle (Tennyson)
 
IVES Thoreau (Ives)
Ann Street (Morris)
Autumn (Twitchell)
 
RADOSAVLJEVIC New Moon (Sun)

Leo Radosavljevic, bass-baritone
Lucas Blondeel, piano
 
CIPULLO
(b. 1960)
How to Get Heat Without Fire (Kallet)

Why I Wear my Hair Long
Saying Goodbye
The Pocketbook

Laura Strickling, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
 
COPLAND
(1900-1990)
Selections from Old American Songs (Traditional)

The Dodger
Long Time Ago
Simple Gifts
I Bought Me a Cat

Nathaniel Olson, baritone
Natalia Katyukova, piano
 
INTERMISSION
 
CORIGLIANO
(b. 1938)
Selections from Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan

VI. Chimes of Freedom
VII. Postlude: Forever Young

Melanie Henley Heyn, soprano
Natalia Katyukova, piano
 
MUSTO
(b. 1954)
Shadow of the Blues (Hughes)

Silhouette
Litany
Island
Could Be

Alan Dunbar, baritone
Renate Rohlfing, piano
 
WAHL
(b. 1986)
 
How happy is the little stone (Dickinson)
 
GORDON
(b. 1956)
If all the griefs I am to have (Dickinson)
You cannot put a fire out (Dickinson)
 
PENHORWOOD
(b. 1939)
 
I heard a fly buzz when I died (Dickinson)
 
HOIBY
(1926-2011)
A Letter (Dickinson)
There came a wind like a bugle (Dickinson)

Alison Wahl, soprano
Lucas Blondeel, piano
 
BOLCOM
(b. 1938)
Selections from Cabaret Songs (Weinstein)

Toothbrush Time
Waitin’
Over the Piano

Ambur Braid, soprano
Bryan Wagorn, piano
 
The Ravinia Festival Association expresses its appreciation to Program Sponsors
Madeleine P. and Harvey R. Plonsker for their generous support of the Steans Music Institute.