Margaret Felice, soprano

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In collaboration with pianist Bonnie Donham, Margaret presented a recital of vocal works by American composers featuring the work of American writers. Watch video.

Performances:

April 28, 2011, 4:00 pm

Gargan Hall, Bapst Library, Boston College

Boston College Arts Festival

May 14, 2011, 2:00 pm

Wood Memorial Library, South Windsor, CT

Program:

Why do they shut me out of heaven? (Emily Dickinson)                                                         Aaron Copland

                                                                                                                                                           (1900-1990)

The Red Dress  (Dorothy Parker)                                                                                                 Ricky Ian Gordon

Let Evening Come (Jane Kenyon)                                                                                               (b. 1956)

Afternoon on the Hill (Edna St. Vincent Millay) 

Joy (Langston Hughes)

Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (James Agee)                                                                                   Samuel Barber

                                                                                                          (1910-1981)

For voice and orchestra, in piano reduction by the composer

“We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee

in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child”

I Grow to be My Grandmother (Marjorie Saiser)                                                                      Lori Laitman

My Mother Has Recovered (Marjorie Saiser)                                                                          (b. 1955)

The China Cup (Janet Coleman)

Pioneer Child’s Doll (Judith Sornberger)

From Within These Spaces: Five songs on poetry of three Nebraskan women

i carry your heart (e e cummings)                                                                                           John Duke

                                                                                                                                                    (1899-1984)