Patricia O`Neill, soprano and Willis Delony, piano Faculty Art Song

Patricia O`Neill, soprano and Willis Delony, piano Faculty Art Song

Patricia O’Neill, soprano
and
Willis Delony, piano
Faculty Art Song Recital
Friday, January 22, 2015
|
7:30 p.m.
| Recital Hall
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Professor Emerita, PATRICIA O’NEILL has
appeared nationally and internationally in leading
operatic and oratorio roles with the Frankfurt Opera,
Stuttgart Opera, Utah Opera, Opera Midwest,
Baton Rouge Opera, Chicago Symphony, Louisiana
Philharmonic, Birmingham Opera, Utah Symphony,
Birmingham Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Mormon
Tabernacle Choir. She was recitalist and clinician
for vocal master classes and Alexander Technique
workshops at universities throughout the world. Prior to LSU, she was Associate
Professor of Voice at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. An ATI
Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique, she teaches a class on the Alexander
Technique to students in the LSU CMDA.
In a career spanning over three decades, pianist
WILLIS DELONY has won acclaim as one of the
nation’s leading classical/jazz crossover artists. His
concert explorations of the jazz and classical piano
worlds are showcased in a series of recordings on the
Centaur label. The final installment of the series, Out
of Character – Classical and Jazz Connections III,
was released in October, 2014. Previous album credits
include a recording of sonatas by Samuel Barber and
Sergei Prokofiev, also on the Centaur label, and a jazz album entitled Civilized
Conversations, featuring Delony and bassist Bill Grimes.
Dr. Delony has appeared as piano soloist or conductor with American
orchestras throughout the United States. As a solo recitalist and jazz performer, he
has performed in over 40 states in the U.S., including a recent solo performance at
Carnegie Hall, as well as France, Germany, Mexico, China and the former Soviet
Union. An experienced orchestral arranger, his scores have been performed by
orchestras throughout the U.S. and Canada.
program
Frauenliebe und -leben (A Woman’s Life and Love)
Robert Schumann
1. Seit ich ihn gesehen
(1810-1856)
2. Er, der Herrlichste von allen
3. Ich kann’s nicht fassen
4. Du Ring an meinem Finger
5. Helft me, ihr Schwestern
6. Süsser Freund
7. An meinem Herzen
8. Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan
(Poems by Adelbert von Chamisso)
Drei Lieder der Ophelia Richard Strauss
Wie erkenn’ ich mein Treulieb vor andern nun?
(1864-1949)
Guten Morgen, ‘s ist Sankt Valentinstag
Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss
(translated from Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Karl Joseph Simrock)
INTERMISSION
La Chanson d’Eve (The Song of Eve)
Gabriel Fauré
1. Paradis (Paradise)
(1845-1924)
2. Prima verba (First Words)
3. Roses ardentes (Passionate Roses)
4. Comme Dieu rayonne (How Radiant God Is)
5. L’aube blanche (The White Dawn)
6. Eau vivante (Living Water)
7. Veilles-tu, ma senteur de soleil? (Are You Awake?)
8. Dans un parfum de roses blanches (In a Perfume of White Roses)
9. Crépuscule (Twilight)
10. Ô mort, poussière d’étoiles (O Death, Dust of Stars)
(Poems by Charles van Lerberghe)
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Jake Heggie
1. Ophelia’s Song (words by Jake Heggie)
(b. 1961)
2. Women have loved before (poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
3. Not in a Silver Casket (poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
4. Spring (poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay)