Where Love Abides
Devotion, Longing, and Remembrance
in the Songs of

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
(1913 – 1976)

William Ferguson, tenor
Daniel Stipe, piano

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 | 7:30 pm
Perkinson Recital Hall
Modlin Center for the Arts

If music be the food of love (1^st version)                    Henry Purcell

Alleluia                                                                        (1659-1695)

                                                                                     Realized by Britten

Morning (from This Way to the Tomb)                         Britten

A poison tree 

Fish in the unruffled lakes

Night covers up the rigid land 

Not even summer yet 

Canticle I: My beloved is mine, op. 40

Intermission

Winter Words, op. 52 

 At Day-close in November

 Midnight on the Great Western (or the Journeying Boy)

 Wagtail and Baby (a Satire)

 The Little Old Table

 The Choirmaster’s Burial (or the Tenor Man’s Story)

 Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches, and Nightingales)

 At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin) 

 Before Life and After

Folksong Arrangements (selections)

 The Lincolnshire Poacher 

 The Salley Gardens

 The Trees They Grow So High

 Little Sir William

 O Waly, Waly 

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