Ethnomusicologist Jessica Swanston Baker talks about her book Island Time, which examines wylers—a musical form from the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis—as a means of underscoring the experiences of the islands' youth who are living with disillusionment following postcolonial independence.

John Fremgen, director

Douglas Henderson, conductor

Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon per Sonar Primi Toni

Kathryn Salfelder
Cathedrals

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Program

Amy Beach 
Three Browning Songs
The Year’s at the Spring
Ah! Love But a Day
I Send my Heart Up to Thee

W.A. Mozart 
E Susanna non vien…Dove Sono I bei momenti 
from Le Nozze di Figaro

Rachmaninoff
Vocalise. Op 34. 14
How Fair this Spot Op 21. 7
O Never Sing to Me Again Op 4. 4
Loneliness Op 21.6

Intermission

Verdi        
Era Piu Calmo…Salce salace…Ave Maria from Otello

Clara Schumann
3 Gedichte aus Rückerts “Liebesfrühling," Op.12
Er ist gekommen
Liebst du um Schönheit
Warum willst du and’re fragen

 
Verdi        
Pace! Pace, mio Dio from La Forza del Destino

Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone 
Combined Choirs
J.D. Burnett, director

Aaron Copland
Old American Songs 

Johannes Brahms
Nänie, Op. 82 

Alexander Borodin
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

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