Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Goodson Chapel – Recital Hall
Shenandoah Conservatory

evocation

Fragment 347

Alcaeus (625–580 B.C.)
Translated by John Addington Symonds

part 1: dream alone

Dream Alone

Paul Sánchez (b. 1982)

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

Changing Light

Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023)
Rabbi Jules Harlow (1931–2024)

February Twilight

John Duke (1899–1984)
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)

Sure On This Shining Night

Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
James Agee (1909–1955)

Claire de lune

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Paul Verlaine (1844–1896)
Translated by Richard Stokes

Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon

Li Po (701–762 A.D.)
Translated by David Hinton

Winter Moon from Songs of the Season

Margaret Bonds (1913–1972)
Langston Hughes (1901–1967)

Night

Florence Price (1887–1953)
Louise C. Wallace (1902–1973)

Nacht und Träume, D. 827

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
M. Casimir von Collin (1779–1824)
Translated by Richard Wigmore

O Boundless, Boundless Evening from 3 Songs, op. 45

Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
Georg Heym (1887–1912)
Translated by Christopher Middleton (1926–2015)

Goodnight Moon

Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952)

Escape at Bedtime

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

part 2: starlight, through streams

The Comet at Valbury or Yell'ham

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

Estrellita Manuel from Deux Chansons Mexicaines

M. Ponce (1805–1847)

Schwanenlied, op. 6, no. 1

Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)
Translated by Richard Stokes

At Midnight from Gothic Atonement

Paul Sánchez (b. 1982)
Madison Julius Cawein (1865–1914)

Flow my teares

John Dowland (1563–1626)
Anonymous Poet

Nuit d’etoiles

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Théodore de Banville (1823–1891)
Translated by Richard Stokes

Bright Star

John Keats (1795–1821)

Nocturne from Four Songs for Voice and Piano, op. 13

Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
Frederic Prokosch (1906–1989)

My Star, op. 26, no. 1

Amy Beach (1867–1944)
Cora Randall Bradley (1871–1892)

Frühlingsnacht, op. 39, no. 12

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857)
Translated by Richard Stokes

Winter Star

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)

part 3: we wander endlessly into light

Hymn to the North Star

William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

Author of Light from Two Bookes of Ayres

Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

A Winter Farewell from Horizon

Paul Sánchez (b. 1982)
Harlan Payne (1946–2011)

Sea Fever

John Masefield (1878–1967)

Fader, stilla våra andar

David M. Gordon (B.1967)
Eric G. Hawkinson (1896–1984)
Translated to Swedish by Anne Rova

... And we are the flawless from ... And we are the flawless

Marcus Amaker (b. 1976)

Mein Stern!

Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
Friederike Serre (1800–1872)
Translated by Richard Stokes

Mondnacht , op. 39, no. 5

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Joseph Von Eichendorff (1788–1857)
Translated by Richard Stokes

Sonnet 116

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

epilogue

we dream starlight

Paul Sánchez (b. 1982)

Singers

Aleah Lemons
Alyssa Bonfardeci
Olivia Scanzera
David Schoonover
Morna Hu
Sha Wu
Jose Barrera
Kaitlyn Flebbe
Brooke Frampton
Erin Finnigan
Emma Faraone
Tegan Smith
Darynn Wanamaker
Donald Hawkins
Byron Jones
Kayleen Sánchez
Fortina Naumenko

Pianists

Ido Shalom
Erik Robinson
Maja Tremiszewska
Paul Sánchez

Instrumentalists

Joshua Klein
Andrew Stewart

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