The Human Heart - Smiles, Tears, Laughter
$12-$17
Bern Herbolsheimer — Love Letters
Eric Lane Barnes — Lambscapes
Giselle Wyers — After the Winter
Randall Thompson — "Choose something like a star" from Frostiana: Seven Country Songs
Randall Thompson — "A girl's garden" from Frostiana: Seven Country Songs
Randall Thompson — "The Telephone" from Frostiana: Seven Country Songs
William Billings — David's Lamentation
Abraham Kaplan — O my son Absalom
Eric William Barnum — The Human Heart
The Star of the County Down — Selected works
Linda Gingrich — Selected works
It has been said that music is a language that expresses feelings that words alone cannot convey. They may be passionate, mournful, humorous, hopeful, languorous, desperate, or any number of subtle combinations. Such is the case for the music on this concert, which largely features music by local composers. Bern Herbolsheimer's Love Letters reflect rapture and loneliness alike. Abraham Kaplan and William Billings address both hope and despair in death. Eric Lane Barnes's Lambscapes give a hilarious twist to an old nursery rhyme. Other works use music to delve into deeper meanings in the poetry of William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, and Robert Frost, and their understandings of the human heart.
The Star of the County Down, arranged by Linda Gingrich
A Red, Red Rose, by Jeremy Kings
Love Letters, by Bern Herbolsheimer
Lambscapes, by Eric Lane Barnes
After the Winter, by Giselle Wyers
Choose something like a star, by Randall Thompson
A Girl's Garden, by Randall Thompson
The Telephone, by Randall Thompson
David's Lamentation, by William Billings
O my son Absalom, by Abraham Kaplan
The Human Heart, by Eric William Barnum
This program will also be presented on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church in Mercer Island, WA.