Eric J. Flyte, Tenor
Nathan Arch, Piano

Katzin Concert Hall | October 25, 2020 | 5:00pm

The American Voice, from Past to Present
John Woods Duke (1899-1984)
Loveliest of Trees
April Elegy
I can’t be talkin’ of love
A Piper
Song Making
i carry your heart

A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
Alfred Young Fisher (1903-1970)
Esther Matthews (1902-1991)
Seumas O’Sullivan (1879-1958)
Sara Teasdale (1884-1993)
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Old American Songs, Set No. 1
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2.
3.
4.
5.

The Boatman’s Dance
The Dodger
Long Time Ago
Simple Gifts
I Bought Me A Cat

(Old Dan D. Emmett, c.1843)
(As sung by Mrs. Emma Dusenberry, c.1880)
(George Pope Morris, c.1837)
(Shaker Tune, quoted by Edward D. Andrews, c.1837)
(Lynn Riggs)
Lee Hoiby (1926-2011)
(Emma Lazarus, from ‘The New Colossus,’ c. 1883)

Lady of the Harbor

Intermission
Ned Rorem (b. October 23, 1923)
As Adam Early in the Morning
Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night
Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain
You, the Young Rainbow

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Walt Whitman
Padriac Pearse (1879-1916)
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

James DeMars (b. 1952)
Four Songs from the Sonnets
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II.
III.
IV.

Summer (XVIII)
Autumn (XCVII)
Winter (II)
Spring (XXXIII)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)