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Schedule Upcoming Performances: December 5, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera
Repertory Opera Theater of Washington Harlie sings the role of Amelia, who remains true to her husband and child by resisting her strong and ultimately fatal attraction to Riccardo, her husband's best friend. Immanuel Church-On-The-Hill 3606 Seminary Road Alexandria, VA 22304 General Admission $20 Senior/Student Admission $15
Tickets available at the door or by calling (571) 403-0814 Or e-mail rotw@live.com
January 10, 2010 3:00 p.m.
Songs of the American Experience
with Rosanne Conway, piano Featuring major works by Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti, two of America's greatest composers Music on the Lake Concert Series
Information/Reservations: Ayako Doi
February 5, 2010 7:30 p.m.
First Friday Music Series
Central United Methodist Church, directly across the street from the Ballston Metro stop 4201 Fairfax Dr Arlington, VA 22203 (703)527-8844/45
October 28, 2009,12:00 noon. Happenings at the Harman Center with Rosanne Conway, piano. featuring Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Presented by the Harman Center for the Arts, Shakespeare Theatre Cost: Free Location: Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F Street NW, Washington, DC
June 14, 2009, 5:00 p.m. Songs of the American Experience Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Frank Conlon, piano
A Benefit Recital for the Friday Morning Music Club (FMMC) Foundation
featuring Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Church of the Annunciation 3810 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC (one block west of Wisconsin Avenue)
Suggested donation: $25 All proceeds to benefit the FMMC Foundation's 2010 Washington International Competition for Singers May 15, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Mozart's Don Giovanni
Presented by the
innovativi Riverbend Opera Company Admission is $20, students $10. Visit www.connincorp.com/iROC March 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.American Lives and Loves Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Rosanne Conway, piano. Featuring : Libby Larsen's "Songs from Letters: Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey" Maury Yeston's song cycle "December Songs" (see words at bottom of this page) Presented by the Lutheran Church of the Reformation Cost: Donation -- Benefit for Stained Glass Window Restoration Fund Location: 212 E. Capitol Street, NE, Washington, DC Info: (202) 543-4200
February 1, 2009, 3:00 p.m. WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute
Presented by the Rock Creek Chamber Players Location: Christ Lutheran Church, 8011 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814 Admission Free
Featuring: Lester Trimble's Four Fragments from the Canterbury Tales
December 17, 2008, 12:00 noon Happenings at the Harman Center Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Warren Zwicky, piano. featuring Maury Yeston's song cycle "December Songs" Presented by the Harman Center for the Arts, Shakespeare Theatre Cost: Free Location: Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F Street NW, Washington, DC
September 14, 2008, 4:00 p.m. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro Role of La Contessa Presented by the Barcroft Opera Company, Annandale, VA Cost: $20
May 18, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
A Heavenly Afternoon a recital by
Harlie Sponaugle, soprano Michelle Lundy, harp Lauren Panfili, flute Charles Potter, organ Featuring Louie White's This Son So Young, Ravel's Cinq Mélodies populaires Grecques, and songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Presented by the United Baptist Church 7100 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA Cost: Free Information: 703-256-5900
April 20, 2008, 3:00 p.m. Flute Society of Washington Membership Recital Harlie Sponaugle, soprano Michael Bowyer, flute
and other artists
Featuring Catherine McMichaels 's Mariko Suite
Presented by the The Flute Society of Washington, DC Location: Patricia M. Sitar Center, 1700 Kalorama Road, NW, Washington, DC Cost: Free Information: 703-256-5900
April 2, 2008, 12:00 noon Happenings at the Harman Center WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute, Amy Rothstein, piano. Presented by the Harman Center for the Arts Cost: Free Location: Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F Street NW, Washington, DC
November 27, 2007, 6:00 p.m. Music of Brian Grundstrom Presented by the Kennedy Center Millennium StageCost: Free Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F Street, NW, Washington, DC
July 13, 2007,
8:00 p.m. Contemporaries: Chamber Works for the 21st Century Premiere of WindSong's latest commission from Catherine McMichael -- Dog Chronicles, for Soprano, Clarinet, Flute and Piano and a new work by local composer Scott Upright
Presented by the
American Composers Forum Location: Patricia M. Sitar Center, 1700 Kalorama Road, NW, Washington, DC
May 11, 12, 16 - 19, 8:00 p.m. Once on This Island with Harlie in the role of Agwe, Goddess of Water presented by the Theatre Lab 733 8th Street, NW Washington, DC
Tickets: $20 call 202-824-0449 for info. and tickets or email contact@theatrelab.org
May 6, 2007, 6:00 p.m. Does Love Conquer All? a recital by
Harlie Sponaugle, soprano Russell Gross, clarinet Scott Alexander, piano and flute
Featuring music by Louis Spohr, Paul Nasto, and excerpts from Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Orpheus and Euridice,” a modern re-telling of an ancient story
7100 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA 703-256-5900
March 1, 2007, 12 noon The Pleasures of Chamber Music: voice, instruments and piano Presented by: Smithsonian Resident Associates Program Location: The Smithsonian Institution S. Dillon Ripley Center Education Center 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW
See link above for admission details
Featuring: The Shepherd on the Rock , by Franz SchubertAcquainted with the Night, by David Kane
January 27, 2007, 8:00 p.m. Paul Nasto's Master's Degree in Composition Graduate Recital Presented by: George Mason University Location: Harris Theater Fairfax Campus 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Admission free
Featuring: Loving the Music: Songs on the Poems of Rumi, for soprano and piano Enter the Forest, for soprano, clarinet and flute
November 12, 2006, 3:00 p.m. With Warren Zwicky, piano
Featuring: Maury Yeston’s December Songs Z. Randall Stroope’s Love’s Waning Seasons A set of Richard Hundley songs Paul Nasto’s Dog Songs
Presented by the Ovation Artists, LLC Location: Berwyn Presbyterian Church, 6301 Greenbelt Road, Berwyn Heights, MD 20740Admission: Free will offering
October 26, 2006, Noon. WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute, Amy Rothstein, piano
Location: Ellipse Arts Center, 4350 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203 Admission Free
December Songs, by Maury Yeston December Snow Snow is falling all around Falling everywhere I walk through it all alone You're no longer there. April, May, two years ago Countless bitter tears ago I thought your love was true I couldn't tell it was not I didn't know how ... No one really knew me then No one knows me now.
How it covers all the ground Every step I take Those I ventured long ago Those I've yet to make Things were so much different then As they'll never be again Spring in the park had begun Each tree reached out to the sun Each leaf so green ... Under this December snow That's no longer seen.
How we'd laugh when we would meet You were my best friend How you made my life complete I thought that could not end I had to believe it so Love, I thought, could never go Your hand in mine for a lifetime We would live as a million people do ...
Oh, don’t think I’ve forgotten yet, I remember you. No you are not forgotten yet, I remember you.
Where Are You Now? On a subway platform A homeless person stops and asks me for twenty cents I hardly see him at all I stare in space I'm adrift I lose my place There is just one thought my mind will allow: Where are you now!
In every window I pass Reflected in the glass is a vacant pair of eyes that sit In a head that nods and talks As the body dumbly walks And the question creases deep in the brow: Where are you now! Now it's eight A.M., Are you getting out of bed? It's eight-fifteen. Are you standing by the stove? It's nine-o-five. Are you putting on your tie? Are your curtains still blowing In your bedroom window? Our bedroom window ...
In every tick of the clock On every city block In the roar of trains that pass me by On the platform here designed For the loveless and their kind· I'd forget you if I only knew how ... Where are you now? Where are you now!
Please Let's Not Even Say Hello We meet by purest chance Accident, unintended; No time to let our feelings show ... Two people once attached Still not matched Still not mended Please let's not even say hello.
Please let's not stop and talk awhile You never know, we might continue talking ... But surely you're still you I'm still me That's for certain I'm still no good at letting go, so ... Please let's not even say hello. Please let's not even say hello.
When Your Love is New How I remember the moment we me When our love was new. Simple affection is all that you need When your love is new.
He brings you flowers and mystery starts. Life is a potpourri basket of hearts On the day your love comes alive.
Light every candle and bask in the glow When your love is new. Go on a walk when there’s nowhere to go every day. Fountains of music will run through your head As you lie daydreaming warm in your bed with your love.
Trust in your feelings that well in your soul. Trust that you’re each of you half of when whole On the day your love comes alive. Believe in your senses, discount all your fears, Believe when it seems you’ve been lovers for years All along, all along,
And you’ll believe you’re not going to die. And you’ll believe there is never goodbye. And in your happiness both of you cry, how you cry.
Oh, how I wish I could relive the days When our love was new. Thinking, believing and feeling that way When our love was new.
Bookseller in the Rain See the bookseller in the rain And the books on the table opened up to the sky In the first light drizzle of a grey afternoon In the city ... See the bookseller in the rain And the stall that he keeps in the street Looking something like a trailer in a trailer park. In the morning when he opens up the doors And out floods a world on the tables As the books open up with their promise of adventure. And their stories And their people And the places you could travel through their pictures And they're opening like flowers ...
And I tell myself I'm a part of them As the printed pages fly by And the people all come alive again In a simple blink of an eye Here a tale of woe, there a comedy And a Dickens novel or two And a story told by O'Henry I have barely time to review Till the first drop of rain ...
See the bookseller in the rain Quickly run to the tables and collect all the books Bring them in from the spatter of the thunderstorm Placing cover onto cover onto cover onto cover And the doors of the stall swinging shut.
Mister bookseller in the rain Let me in? I'm a closed book, too.
My Grandmother's Love Letters I went up to my attic To put away your letters In a grey metal box, with two broken locks Next to an old bird cage. When I went to put your letters inside I found another packet Covered with dust And smelling of must That came from another age ...
My grandmother's love letters Held in her trembling hand When she was seventeen They were a world to her They were her youth They made her whisper low Seventy-seven years ago
My grandmother's love letters So firmly in her grasp She'd read one line and gasp That means she breathed the air of long ago I loved her so ...
Some things you never know - What makes the tide come in and the little flower grow. How Father Time decides when he'll come for one of us Some things you never know - What makes the eagle fly and the southern wind blow These things they come, they go Like portents Omens Dreams ... You never know.
My grandmother's love letters When she was seventeen Think what they had to mean They were a world to her They were her youth She tied them with a bow Seventy-seven years ago
My grandmother's love letters So firmly in her grasp She'd read one line and gasp And I'm the air she breathed so long ago I miss her so ...
I Am Longing I am longing to be loved Who will have this willing heart? I'll return love for my part I'm longing to be loved.
Oh tell me who in the world Will have all my care? Who will receive all that I have to share?
I am longing to be loved Who will have this willing heart? I'll return love for my part I'm longing to be loved.
Who will have this heart of mine Bursting wide with joy to give? None so loyal, true or fine Who wants this heart of mine?
I Had a Dream about You I had a dream about you We were together again As we had always been. It was the happiest dream I think I ever have had That you and I've been in.
It was a dream I don't need to explain We're in the car and we're driving in Maine It's so incredibly beautiful I don't know where to begin ...
We're driving into the night And from a magical height We see two orange moons. They're hangin' up in the sky Like a pair of contented balloons. And as we stare into space in astonishment I turn to look at your face and you kiss me ... All in an instant inside of a wonderful dream.
Oh I remember two orange moons Rise in the sky to the sound of loons And you were there – my dream.
I had a dream about you We were together again An old familiar pair. It was the kind of a dream So absolutely convincing You believe you're there. The open road and the dotted white lines The crispy smell in the air of the pines The overwhelming sensation You're up and awake everywhere ...
And when we look in the sky They're getting higher and higher Those two orange moons. There's one for you and for me And, impossibly, both of them gleam. And I am holding your hand for eternity And you're beginning to say That you love me If only it really had happened If only it all really happened I had a dream about you But, of course, It was only a dream It was only a dream It was only a dream I had a dream about you but of course It was only a dream. By the River From the icy bridge I hear the river Flowing out beyond the open bay Deep beneath the waves a voice is calling Come down to me, it seems to say ...
I will understand your frozen journey In the bends and elbows of my flow Come to me and be my close companion We'll be as one In what we know What we know ...
People will be born People will die As before you were born And long after you ... Young ones will find love Hand will find hand We will flow, with no end On and on ... on and, on ...
River calling, “Come join my journey. I will ease your burden, I will be your rest.” River calling, “Come be my lover. I will bring you freedom Flow along with me to the sea.” She sings to me She sings to me
“See the snowflakes melting on my surface As I softly lap against the shore. Take a step and come to me my darling Here in my arms You'll cry no more Cry no more ...”
What a Relief Nothing left but the shouting Nothing left but the pain Nothing left but the doubting Nothing raining but rain I should be feeling despondent I should be lost in my grief But all that I feel inside Is - What a relief What a relief. ..
My life's not a short story My life's more than pretend My life has its tomorrows Stories come to an end Fictional hearts can be broken Real ones don't heal all that well Amazing to still be here And what a relief.
No, I don't regret the day That I first met you No, there'll never be a time When I'll forget you Oh, if only half the things I've lived and planned for Turn out for the best. ..
This will take getting used to Something new on my mind Somehow making a new start Somehow hoping I'll find Those moments we can advance to Moments we have a chance to Turn a new leaf Those moments are few And always too brief ... But what a relief!
Coda But surely you're still you I'm still me That's for certain I'm still no good at letting go, so ... Please let's not even say hello.
Snow is falling all around Falling everywhere I walk through it all alone You're no longer there.
Copyright © 1991 Yeston Music Ltd.
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