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Program Personnel
Wesley Bradstreet
Jun Cai
Neilson Chen
Catherine Choi

BM Music Theater
OMA Piano Performance
OMA Collaborative Piano
MS Social Work

James Diaz
Lina Forero

BM Music Education
BM Musical Theater

Prescott, Arizona
Changsha, China
Taipai, Taiwan
Seoul, South Korea

Ying Jin
Hayden Jones

Glendale, Arizona
San Antonio, Texas
Huntington, New York
BM Musical Therapy
MM Mus.Theater Direction Cedarville, Ohio
OMA Vocal Performance Jilin, China
BM Vocal Performance
Dothan , Alabama

Olga Kim
Rina Kim
Saeyeon Kim
Michael Koester-Hestand
Erin Kong
Yi Lu
Mengyu Liu

DMA Collaborative Piano
DMA Piano Performance
DMA Vocal Performance
BM Vocal Performance
BM Music Theater
OMA Piano Performance
BM Piano Performance

Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Toronto, Canada
Atlanta, Georgia
Gilbert, Arizona
Chandler, Arizona
Dalian, China
Changsha, China

Julian Mendoza
Joshua Miranda.
Victor Mercado

BM Music Theater
BM Musical Theater
MM Music Theater
BM Music Theater
DMA Vocal Performance
DMA Collaborative Piano

Phoenix, Arizona
Chalan Pago, Guam
Los Angeles, California

Liora Hyman
Dani Lee Hutch

Kathlynn Rodin
Juhee Seo
Amanda Sherill
Thomas Smith
Lara Suer
Julia Tucker
Christian Wiltbank
Lorena Witte
Katherine Wright

BM Music Theater

Phoenix, Arizona
Seoul, South Korea
Altamonte Sps., Florida
Mays Landing, New Jersey

Athens, Ohio
BM Vocal Performance
OMA Organ Performance Auburn, Alabama
Tempe, Arizona
BM Musical Therapy
BM Vocal Perf/Design
Tucson, Arizona
Ph.D Sustainability

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PROGRAM
Early in the Morning
Ned Rorem (b.1923)
Wesley Bradstreet, baritone
Olga Kim, piano
Take 0 Take Those Lips Away
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Liora Hyman, soprano
Lara Suer, piano
Simple Gifts
arr. by Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Lina Forero, soprano
Yi lu, piano
Sure On This Shining Night
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
James Diaz, baritone
Jun Cai, piano
Grunchin' Witch
John Duke (1899-1984)
Katherine Wright, mezzo soprano
Olga Kim, piano
Laurie's Song
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
from The Tender Land
Hayden Jones, soprano
Yi Lu, piano
Fair Robin, I Love
from the opera Tartuffe
Kirke Mechem (b.1925)
Kathlynn Rodin, soprano
Yi Lu, pianist

Studio 303 Concert Series: 1989-2019*
1989 ~P.<1h<IMQ.lj~
1992 Mozart Marathon
1992 ~~ct!J.C)rt~Q!!~ 11
1993 Handel: Heros & Heroines
1993 Gilbert & Sullivan Revisited
1994 Shakespeare & Song
1995 To Vienna (With Love)
1995 Gabriel Faure Song Book
1996 DIVA!
1996 Copland: American Soliloquy
1997 Bernstein Sings!
1997 English Folk Song Suite
1998 0 Canada!
1°998 Gershwin: By George
1999 Stephen Sondheim Song Book
1999 TRIO!
2000 Viva Mozart
2000 Barber: Essay for Voices
2000 Three Sopranos/Three Clarinets
2001 DUETS
2001 Stormy Weather
2002 DAMES
2002 With a Song in My Heart
2003 Birdsong
2004 Melodies
2004 Dreamers
2005 Here's a Howdy Doi
2005 Flowers
2006 A Song for Rosa Parks
2006 LUNA
2006 Singing In French
2007 Fur Ball

2007 Gecile Chaminade: La Voix
2008 SQUABBLES
2008 Edvard Grieg Songs
2008 French Song Recital
2009 Serious Fun
2009 CLARA
2010 GOOD FOOD
2010 Richard Hundley: Song Book
2011 Possibilities
2011 Stephen Foster. Song Man
2012 Critters
2012 French Songs
2013 Gershwin Project
2013 Stephen Sondheim Songs
2014 John Duke Songs
2014 Ned R~ro Songs
2015 A Song for Martin: MLK
2015 Songs from the Movies
2016 Amy Beach Song Book
2016 Kurt Weill Songs
2016 French Song Concert
2017 Showstoppers
2017 Cabaret Songs
2018 Bernstein Songs
2018 Oscar Hammerstein Lyrics
2018 French Song Recital
2019 American Song Book

"For More Information Online
Google: ASU Studio 303
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Shelling Peas
John Duke (1899-1984)
Christian Wiltbank, baritone
Mengyu. Liu, piano
Willow Song
Douglas Moore (1893-1969)
from the Ballad of Baby Doe
Lorena Witte, soprano
Yi Lu, piano
I Bought Me a Cat
arr. by Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Joshua Miranda, bass-baritone

Amanda Sherrill, piano
INTERMISSION

Nature, the Gentlest Mother
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
From Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Ying Jin, mezzo soprano
Rina Kim, piano

Will There Ever Be A Morning
Richard Hundley (1931-2018)
Saeyeon Kim, soprano
Amanda Sherill, piano
Luke Havergal
John Duke (1899-1984)
Michael Koester-Hestand baritone
Rina Kim, piano

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Ah Love, But a Day
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Jul'lee Seo, soprano
Rina Kim, piano

They Can't Take That Away from Me
George Gershwin (1899-1927)
Thomas Smith, baritone
Dani Lee Hutch, piano

Made of Stone
Alan Menken (b. 1949)
from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Julian Mendoza, tenor
Mengyu. Liu, piano

Meadowlark
Stephen Schwartz (b. 1948)
from The Baker's Wife
Erin Kong, mezzo soprano
Catherine Choi, piano

Moving Too Fast
Jason Robert Brown (b. 1970)
from The Last Five Years
Victor Mercado, tenor
Neilson Chen, piano
Anthem
Thomas Arne (1710-1778) Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895)
Studio Ensemble
Julia Tucker, organ

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American Song Book: Notes
•Ned Rorem's setting of Robert
Hillyer's text describes an urban
pastorale in summertime Paris

•Copland's barnyard menagerie
tune is reminiscent of Old
MacDonald's song.

·Amy Beach's music set to a
familiar song text by William
Shakespeare.

•Emily Dickinson's pastoral words
are set in this composition by
Copland from his cycle of songs
inspired by the Belle of Amherst.

·One of the main themes of Aaron
Copland's ballet Appalachian
Spring is taken from this simple
Shaker melody.

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•Samuel Barber's most famous
melody is exhibited her and ranks
with his Adagio for Strings.
•The Grunchin' Witch is John
Duke's whimsical description of a
disruptive old conjurer.
·From the opera The Tender Land,
Copland accompanies a young
girls narrative on the brink of
growing up.
·This didactic soprano aria comes
from Kirk Mechem's opera
Tartuffe based on the Moliere
play.

·Richard Hundley also tries his
hand at setting this Dickinson text
describing a doubtful but hopeful
future.
•John Duke's haunting scene of
triumph over despair in Luke
Havergal.
·Robert Browning's plaintive Ah
Love but a Day inspired Amy
Beach to write this dramatic
piece.
•This George & Ira Gershwin tune
never fails to impress.
·The Hunchback Quasimodo has
a stirring personal epiphany.

·Shelling Peas is a John Duke
setting of an interesting culinary
occurrence.

·From the Baker's Wife by
Stephen Schwarz, the character
Genevieve is trying to decide
whether to stay with her husband
or run off with a younger man.

·From Douglass Moore's The
Ballade of Baby Doe, the title
character remember's her first
love.

·From Jason Robert Brown's
poignant Last Five Years, Jamie
celebrates his newly acquired
fame as a young author.

PROGRAM
Early in the Morning
Ned Rorem (b.1923)
Wesley Bradstreet, baritone
Olga Kim, piano
Take 0 Take Those Lips Away
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Liora Hyman, soprano
Lara Suer, piano
Simple Gifts
arr. by Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Lina Forero, soprano
Yi lu, piano
Sure On This Shining Night
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
James Diaz, baritone
Jun Cai, piano
Grunchin' Witch
John Duke (1899-1984)
Katherine Wright, mezzo soprano
Olga Kim, piano
Laurie's Song
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
from The Tender Land
Hayden Jones, soprano
Yi Lu, piano
Fair Robin, I Love
from the opera Tartuffe
Kirke Mechem (b.1925)
Kathlynn Rodin, soprano
Yi Lu, pianist

Studio 303 Concert Series: 1989-2019*
1989 ~P.<1h<IMQ.lj~
1992 Mozart Marathon
1992 ~~ct!J.C)rt~Q!!~ 11
1993 Handel: Heros & Heroines
1993 Gilbert & Sullivan Revisited
1994 Shakespeare & Song
1995 To Vienna (With Love)
1995 Gabriel Faure Song Book
1996 DIVA!
1996 Copland: American Soliloquy
1997 Bernstein Sings!
1997 English Folk Song Suite
1998 0 Canada!
1°998 Gershwin: By George
1999 Stephen Sondheim Song Book
1999 TRIO!
2000 Viva Mozart
2000 Barber: Essay for Voices
2000 Three Sopranos/Three Clarinets
2001 DUETS
2001 Stormy Weather
2002 DAMES
2002 With a Song in My Heart
2003 Birdsong
2004 Melodies
2004 Dreamers
2005 Here's a Howdy Doi
2005 Flowers
2006 A Song for Rosa Parks
2006 LUNA
2006 Singing In French
2007 Fur Ball

2007 Gecile Chaminade: La Voix
2008 SQUABBLES
2008 Edvard Grieg Songs
2008 French Song Recital
2009 Serious Fun
2009 CLARA
2010 GOOD FOOD
2010 Richard Hundley: Song Book
2011 Possibilities
2011 Stephen Foster. Song Man
2012 Critters
2012 French Songs
2013 Gershwin Project
2013 Stephen Sondheim Songs
2014 John Duke Songs
2014 Ned R~ro Songs
2015 A Song for Martin: MLK
2015 Songs from the Movies
2016 Amy Beach Song Book
2016 Kurt Weill Songs
2016 French Song Concert
2017 Showstoppers
2017 Cabaret Songs
2018 Bernstein Songs
2018 Oscar Hammerstein Lyrics
2018 French Song Recital
2019 American Song Book

"For More Information Online
Google: ASU Studio 303
YOU TUBE: ASU Studio 303

(,

Program Personnel
Wesley Bradstreet
Jun Cai
Neilson Chen
Catherine Choi

BM Music Theater
OMA Piano Performance
OMA Collaborative Piano
MS Social Work

James Diaz
Lina Forero

BM Music Education
BM Musical Theater

Prescott, Arizona
Changsha, China
Taipai, Taiwan
Seoul, South Korea

Ying Jin
Hayden Jones

Glendale, Arizona
San Antonio, Texas
Huntington, New York
BM Musical Therapy
MM Mus.Theater Direction Cedarville, Ohio
OMA Vocal Performance Jilin, China
BM Vocal Performance
Dothan , Alabama

Olga Kim
Rina Kim
Saeyeon Kim
Michael Koester-Hestand
Erin Kong
Yi Lu
Mengyu Liu

DMA Collaborative Piano
DMA Piano Performance
DMA Vocal Performance
BM Vocal Performance
BM Music Theater
OMA Piano Performance
BM Piano Performance

Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Toronto, Canada
Atlanta, Georgia
Gilbert, Arizona
Chandler, Arizona
Dalian, China
Changsha, China

Julian Mendoza
Joshua Miranda.
Victor Mercado

BM Music Theater
BM Musical Theater
MM Music Theater
BM Music Theater
DMA Vocal Performance
DMA Collaborative Piano

Phoenix, Arizona
Chalan Pago, Guam
Los Angeles, California

Liora Hyman
Dani Lee Hutch

Kathlynn Rodin
Juhee Seo
Amanda Sherill
Thomas Smith
Lara Suer
Julia Tucker
Christian Wiltbank
Lorena Witte
Katherine Wright

BM Music Theater

Phoenix, Arizona
Seoul, South Korea
Altamonte Sps., Florida
Mays Landing, New Jersey

Athens, Ohio
BM Vocal Performance
OMA Organ Performance Auburn, Alabama
Tempe, Arizona
BM Musical Therapy
BM Vocal Perf/Design
Tucson, Arizona
Ph.D Sustainability

A511.o:~ig~t~~drthe Arts
0 20 17 Arizona Board of Regents. All rights reserved . 0217

Arizona State University