Ladies Musical Club: Famous French melodies for solo piano & for voice

Charles Gounod — Selected works
Gabriel Pierné — Selected works
Ernest Chausson — Selected works
Henri Duparc — Selected works
Claude Debussy — Selected works
Reynaldo Hahn — Selected works
Gabriel Fauré — Selected works
Josef Szulc — Selected works
Jules Massenet — Selected works
Frédéric Chopin — Selected works
Franz Liszt — Selected works
Édouard Lalo — Selected works
Maurice Ravel — Selected works

Tiina Ritalahti, soprano
Katie Hochman, soprano
Ya-Li Lee, soprano
Regina Thomas, soprano
Karin McCullough, piano
Joan Lundquist, piano
Lucy Wenger, piano

Gounod – Sérénade (poem by Victor Hugo)
Pierné – Sérénade, Op. 7 (poem by Eugène Adénis-Colombeau)
Chausson – Sérénade Italienne, Op. 2, No. 5 (poem by Paul Bourget)
Duparc – Sérénade Florentine (poem by Henri Cazalis)
Debussy – La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)
Debussy – Suite Bergamasque, Movement 1 “Prélude” and Movement 3, “Clair de lune”
Hahn – L’heure exquise (The exquisite hour) (poem by Paul Verlaine)
Fauré – Clair de lune, Op. 46, No. 2 (poem by Paul Verlaine)
Debussy – Clair de lune, L. 45, No. 2 (poem by Paul Verlaine)
Szulc – Clair de lune, Op. 83, No. 1 (poem by Paul Verlaine)
Chausson – La Nuit (duet)
Massenet – Meditation from Thaïs
Chopin – Nocturne No. 2 In E-flat major, Op. 9
Liszt – Enfant, si j’etais Roi (If I were king) (poem by Victor Hugo)
Liszt – Oh, quand je dors (Oh, when I sleep) (poem by Victor Hugo)
Pierné – Les Trois Chansons (poem by Victor Hugo)
Fauré – Puisque ici bas (duet) (poem by Victor Hugo)
Debussy – Children’s Corner, No. 6 “Golliwogg’s Cakewalk”
Debussy – La Cathédrale Engloutie (The Engulfed Cathedral)
Liszt – Guitare
Lalo – Guitare (poem by Victor Hugo)
Fauré – Mandoline (poem by Paul Verlaine)
Ravel – Tout gai! (everyone is joyous!) (poem by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi)

Special concert co-sponsored by the Ladies Musical Club and the City of Seatac.

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