HESEA presents

The Hughes Choir

singing

Vocal Music of the Past

May 18, 19, and 20, 1983

R1 Auditorium

• Middle Ages--Sacred: Rex caeli (anon., ca. 850)
• Middle Ages--Secular: Sumer is icumen in (anon., ca. 1240)
• Renaissance--Sacred mass: "Kyrie eleison" from Missa Brevis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, ca. 1582)
• Baroque--Sacred: "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" from Cantata No. 147 (Johann Sebastian Bach, ca. 1726)
• Classical--Oratorio: "Thanks Be to God" from Elijah (Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, ca. 1847)
• Romantic--Opera:  "Entrance of the Toreador" from Carmen (Georges Bizet, ca. 1875)
• Romantic--Comic Opera: Two Selections from H.M.S. Pinafore (Arthur Sullivan, ca. 1878)
  • "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore"
  • "I Am the Monarch of the Sea"
• 20th Century--Operetta: Selections from The Merry Widow (Franz Lehár, ca. 1905)
• 20th Century--Musical Comedy: "Oklahoma" from Oklahoma! (Richard Rodgers, ca. 1943)
• 20th Century--Rock Opera: "Memory" from Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber, ca. 1981)