May 27, 2011 - 7:30pm
Ruggero's Fourth Friday Mix
Ruggero Piano Recital Hall
Raleigh, NC 27616

The piano will be a very good one. Not sure yet whether I get to play a Fazioli, Schimmel or Bosendorfer, but playing any of the three would be “a good thing, indeed”.

Program for the Fourth Friday Mix

May, 27 2011
Eric Hale, baritone
Catherine Hamner, piano

· “I want what I want when I want it” from Mlle. Modiste, lyrics by Henry Blossom and music by Victor Herbert

Andrew Kraus, piano

· Transcription of The Star Spangled Banner by Leopold Godowsky
· Nocturne – Transcription of Chopin Op. 10, #7 by Leopold Godowsky
· Concert Transcription of “Bess, you is my woman now” by David Saperton after George Gershwin
· Si oiseau j’étais by Adolf von Henselt
· Liebeslied by Franz Liszt after Robert Schumann
· Papillon by Moriz Rosenthal
· Songs My Mother Used to Sing by Edouard Schütt after Antonín Dvořák
· Valse a la bien aimee by Edouard Schütt
· Lezginka by Sergei Liapunov

The Avante Octet
· Colleen Rohlf – soprano
· Lacey Burt – soprano
· Jenn Myers – alto
· Kimberly Slentz-Kesler – alto
· Bradley Naylor – tenor
· Kevin Badanes – tenor
· Bob Slentz-Kesler – baritone
· Bill Adams – bass

· Selections from Illusions by Kevin Badanes

· o “Ready”, performed by Lacey Burt
· o “Loving the Shadow” performed by Lacey Burt and Colleen Rohlf
· o “If We Believe” performed by Kevin Badanes
· o “Marlin’s Diary” performed by Avante
· o “You’re Not Special and You’re Not Different” performed by Avante

· Fool on The Hill arr. Jonathon Rathbone
· Cells, Planets arr. Vince Peterson
· Country Dances by Ward Swingle