presents
VOICE OF NATURE: THE ANTHROPOCENE
PART 1
The following pieces are accompanied by a film provided by National Geographic video.
The audience is asked to kindly hold applause until the end of the program.
Hazel Dickens (1935-2011)
"Pretty Bird"
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
"Care Selve" from Atalanta
Nico Muhly (b. 1981)
"Endless Space"
Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957)
"Baïléro" from Songs of the Auvergne
Maria Schneider (b. 1960)
"Our Finch Feeder" from Winter Morning Walks
Björk (b. 1965)
"All is Full of Love"
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Moments Musicaux, no. 4 (piano solo)
Howard Shore (b. 1946)
"Twilight and Shadow" from
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Kevin Puts (b. 1972)
"Evening"
Curtis Green (b. 1965)
"Red Mountains Sometimes Cry"
Burt Bacharach (1928-2023)
"What the World Needs Now"
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PART 2
Entr'Acte: Jackson Browne (b. 1948)
"Before the Deluge" (recording)
Arrangement by Caroline Shaw, with Rhiannon Giddens,
Alison Krauss and Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
"Ständchen"
"Waldseligkeit"
Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
"Waldseligkeit"
"Les Etoiles"
"L'Heure exquise"
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
"Allons! Il le faut... Adieu, notre petite table"
from Manon
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Jeux d'eau (piano solo)
Francesco Cilea (1866-1950)
"Ecco, respiro appena... lo son l'umile ancella"
from Adriana Lecouvreur
Andrew Lippa (b. 1964)
"The Diva"
Stage Manager: Barbara Donner
Supertitles created
and cued by Linda Zoolalian
Piano graciously provided by Yamaha
Please refrain from talking during the performance, and turn off all cell phones, electronic devices and watch alarms. If you are using an assistive hearing device, or are attending with someone who is, please make sure that it is set to an appropriate level to avoid distracting audio feedback. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house management. Members of the audience who leave during the performance will not be shown back into the theater until the next intermission. The use of cameras and recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Your use of a ticket acknowledges your willingness to appear in photographs taken in public areas of the Music Center and releases the Center and its lessees and others from liability resulting from use of such photographs.
