Sample Recital Program:
Music of Our Time

All works on this program were commissioned for and premiered by the Lyric Duo.

Songs from Shakespeare for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano
O mistress mine (from “Twelfth Night”)
If she be made of white and red (from “Love’s Labor’s Lost”)
Tell me, where is fancy bred? (from “The Merchant of Venice”)
When daffodils begin to peer (from “The Winter’s Tale”)
Come away death (from “Twelfth Night”)
The peddlar’s song (from “Twelfth Night”)

Frederic Steffen

Six or Seven Songs (from “Eight Significant Landscapes,” poems by Wallace Stevens)
I. An old man
II. The night
III. I measure myself
IV. When my dream was near the moon
V. Not all the knives
VI. & VII. (and Epilogue) Wrestle with morning-glories

Kurt J. Ellenberger

Intermission

A Community of Trees (text by Patricia Clark)
Praeludium
… a sigh on the wind …
… those restless wanderers heading west …
… spires against the horizon …
Incantation
Postludium

Kurt J. Ellenberger

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NOTE: This program requires numberous guest artists:
Instrumentation: soprano, piano, trumpet/fleugelhorn, clarinet/bassoon and flute/piccolo.

This program is just one example of the many recitals the Lyric Duo has to offer.

For further information on this and other programs contact:
The Lyric Duo
1 (888) 838-1612 or (660) 562-1318
lyricduo@yahoo.com


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