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Course Schedule :: Voices of the Millennium
2011 Course Schedule

The Voices of the Millennium course will be held in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois.

410 South Michigan, Suite 825, Chicago, Illinois

2010 Session: 18-26 June

Daily Schedule:

8-10 a.m.: Movement-Fitzmaurice Voicework

10 a.m. - 12 noon: Application of Voicework to text reading

LUNCH

1 p.m.: Text continued

2-5 p.m.: Application of text to music

June 18 Welcoming reception 6-8

June 26 Final Concert 2.00 pm

Recital space at Pianoforte, Inc., ChicagoSuite 825   Fine Arts Building
410 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

 


Repertoire from past sessions includes...

ENGLISH

Anon: Blow the Wind Southerly
Barber: Now Have I Fed and Eaten Up the Rose
Barber: The Daisies
Barber: Secrets of the Old
Barber: St. Ita’s Vision
Copland: Heart, We Will Forget Him
Gershwin: It Take a Long Pull to Get There
Gurney: Sleep
Handel: He was despised (Messiah)
Floyd: Ain’t It A Pretty Night
Menotti: Steal Me, Sweet Thief 
Moore: The Willow Song (The Ballad of Baby Doe)
Moore: Warm as the Autumn Light (Baby Doe)
Purcell: Dido’s Lament
Vaughn Williams: The Call (Mystical Songs)

ITALIAN

Bellini:  Ah, non credea, non giunge (La Sonnambula)
Bellini: Ah, per sempre  (I Puritani)
Donaudy: Amorosi miei giorni
Donaudy: Quando ti rivedro
Donaudy: Spirate, pur Spirate
Donaudy: Vaghissima sembianza
Donizetti: Una furtive lagrima
Durante: Danza, fanciulla
Mozart  Batti, batti o bel Masetto (Don Giovanni)
Mozart: Deh vieni alla finestra
Mozart: Deh vieni, non tardar
Mozart: Dove sono
Mozart: Hai gia vinta la causa
Mozart:Vedrai carino
Puccini: Mi chiamano Mimi
Puccini: Signore, ascolta (Turandot)
Respighi: Nebbie
Valle-Un aura amorosa

FRENCH

Bizet: Votre toast (Carmen)
Chabrier: Ballade des gros dindons
Debussy: Beau soir
Debussy: C’est l’extase
Debussy: Romance
Debussy: Le temps a laissé son manteau (Trois Chansons de France)
Duparc: Au pays ou ce fait la guerre
Fauré: Claire de lune
Fauré/Berlioz (Gautier)  Ma belle amie est morte
Gounod: Ah, je veux vivre (Roméo et Juliette)
d’Indy: Madrigal
Lalo: Vainement  
Massenet  Frère, voyez!... Du gai soleil (Werther)
Massenet: Obeissons quand leur voix appelle (Manon)
Poulenc: Air Grave
Poulenc: Mon cadavre  (Fiançelle pour rire)

GERMAN

Mozart: Abendempfindung
Mozart: Ach, ich fühl’s (Die Zauberflöte)
Mozart: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja! (Die Zauberflöte)
Schubert: An die Musik
Schubert: Du bist die Ruh
Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Schubert: Ständchen
Schumann: Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’
Strauss: Ach Lieb , ich muss nun scheiden
Strauss  Mein Herr Marquis (Die Fledermaus)
Strauss: Stândchen
Wagner: Die Frist ist um (Der Fliegende Holländer)
Wagner: Weiche, Wotan (Rheingold)
Wolf: Schlafendes Jesuskind

 

"Thank you again for a rich experience. It was wonderful to meet each of you and to share music with you. Thank you, Myron, for providing guidance, structure, and safety, and for sharing from your storehouses of wisdom and experience. VotM was a great joy and encouragement to me musically and personally."

--Jennifer Whiting (2009)