2022-2023 Season

FRIDAY, May 19, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Opera Scenes

Gamble Auditorium, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, 96 Front Street, Berea, Ohio

from Ara the Beautiful bv Inna Onofrei

Rachel Rose & Abigail Williams, soprano • Katniss Bi, mezzo soprano • Jordy Vargas, baritone

from Richard Ill: A Crown of Roses, A Crown of Thorns by Karen Griebling

Stephanie Smittle, mezzo soprano • Alex Cosma, treble • Loren Reash-Henz, baritone • Brian Keith Johnson, baritone

from The Pilot by Lorenzo Salvagni

Anna O'Connell, soprano

from The Higgler by Margi Griebling-Haigh

Lisl Wangermann, soprano • Sue Wallin, mezzo soprano • Brian Keith Johnson, baritone

from The Little Hen by Jeffrey Quick

Lisl Wangermann, soprano • Sandra Ross, mezzo sobrano • Mark Laseter, tenor • Loren Reash-Henz. baritone

SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2023 AT 4:00PM

PRECONCERT TALK 3:30PM

Our collaborative concert with the Cleveland Chamber Choir will begin at 3:30 p.m. with a preconcert talk given by Charles Edward McGuire, PhD.

Drinko Recital Hall, Cleveland State University 2001 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44115

The concert order and piece titles are listed below. Pieces by Cleveland Composers Guild members will be heard throughout.

Songs of the Season

“Spring Dreams” by Chen Yi

"Spring" by Eric Charnofsky

“The Narrow Bud Opens” & “Answer July” from The Passing of the Year by Jonathan Dove

"Rain in Summer" by Inna Onofrei

Entering Nature

"Sea Grass" by Cara Haxo

"Le Ruisseau" by Gabriel Fauré

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” byMargaret Bonds

"Rules" by Ryan Charles Ramer

A New Frostiana

“Choose Something Like A Star” from Frostiana by Randall Thompson

“The Pasture” by Margaret Bonds

"Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" by Geoffrey Peterson

Songs of Adoration

"Ave Maria" by Mark Nowakowski

"Ave, Spes Nostra" by Vincente Lusitano

"Salvation is Created" by Pavel Chesnokov

"Gloria in Excelsis Deo" by William Rayer

“Peace I Leave With You” by Amy Beach

Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.

Vocal Chamber Music: Singers and Instrumentalists Play Nicely Together!

West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church 20401 Hilliard Blvd., Rocky River, OH 44116

8 songs (on poems of e. e. cummings)

by Eric Charnofsky

mezzo soprano, flute, guitar, marimba

Excerpt from The Roly Poly Pudding

by Karen Griebling

soprano, baritone, treble, narrator, piano

10th Annual Collegiate Composition Contest First Prize Winning Composition

Five Songs

by Tristan Wilson

soprano, viola, percussion

On This Mountain

by Jeffrey Quick

soprano, flute, oboe, piano

To See a World

by Chris Neiner

mezzo soprano, cello, piano

Three Songs for Tenor and Bassoon Trio

by Ryan Charles Ramer

tenor, 3 bassoons

Kipling Songs

by Margi Griebling-Haigh

soprano, baritone, violin, cello, piano

ART SONG MINI FESTIVAL: Sopranos Take Center Stage!

Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.

Spahr Center, First Baptist Church, 3630 Fairmount Blvd., Shaker Heights, OH 44118

PROGRAM

Sebastian Birch: Les ténèbres

Jennifer Conner: This Moment

Jeffrey Quick: Russian Songs

Ryan Ramer: Sweet and Sour Animal Book

William Rayer: Passion

Adam Roberts: Two Songs

Robert Rollin: Songs on Emily Dickinson

Lorenzo Salvagni: Così lunga a morire; Contro il Circeo

Matthew Saunders: Woman/Night

Stephen Stanziano: A Thousand Bouquets; When I Put Out to Sea

Featuring sopranos Susan Fletcher, Rebecca Freshwater, Keiko Weinroth, Lara Troyer, Liz Huff, Dorota Sobieska, and Madelyn Hasebein with Eric Charnofsky, Coren Mino, Jacek Sobieski, and Lorenzo Salvagni, piano; John Gamin, toy piano; and Matthew Saunders, trombone