Melisa Barrick Baldwin, soprano
Eileen Downey, piano
Wesley Baldwin, cello

Friday, September 23, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

PROGRAM

Capriccio
Lucas Foss
(1922-2009)

Wesley Baldwin, cello
Eileen Downey, piano

You Give me Beauty*
Nancy Baker Fate Heers, poetry
Paul A. Epstein, music

You Give Me Beauty
For Wendel

Each day you give me beauty.
You find it in a leaf or in the sky
Or in a rock or flower.
Even in winter you find a bouquet.
In the heart of February,
You find salmon geraniums and white petunias
Blooming in the summer fisherman's crates.
You find Joseph's coat and asparagus fern-
A breath of summer for the days of snow.
Each day you give me beauty
In your eyes and in your ways.

Melisa Barrick Baldwin, soprano
Wesley Baldwin, cello
*World premiere performance

Lidio
María Teresa Prieto
(1896-1982)

Negro Dance, Opus 25 No. 1
Nora Douglas Holt
(1884-1974)

Estrellita
Manuel María Ponce
(1882-1948)
arr. Heifetz/Cannon

Corcovado
Antônio Carlos Jobim
(1927-1994)

Wesley Baldwin, cello
Eileen Downey, piano

--- INTERMISSION ---

Vier letzte Lieder

Frühling
September
Beim Schlafengehen
Im Abendrot

Richard Strauss
(1864-1949)

Melisa Barrick Baldwin, soprano
Eileen Downey, piano

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