Who knows if the moon’s a balloon?
Text by e. e. cummings
who knows if the moon’s
a balloon, coming out of a keen city
in the sky—filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody’s ever visited,where
always
it’s
Spring)and everyone’s
in love and flowers pick themselves
Winter Moon
Text by Hoagy Carmichael
Winter moon, up there alone in the sky,
All I can hear is the word “good-bye.”
Winter moon, do you recall a night in June?
Where is love’s magic? Where did it go?
Has it gone like the summertime that we used to
know?
Winter moon, up there alone in the sky,
Are you as lonely tonight as I?
Jupiter has seven moons
Text by Leonard Bernstein
Jupiter has seven moons or is it nine?
Saturn has a million, billion, trillion sixty-nine;
And every one is a little sun, with six little moons
of its own!
But we have only one!
Just think of all the fun we’d have if there were
nine!
Then we could be just nine times more romantic!
Dogs would bay till they were frantic!
We’d have nine tides in the Atlantic!
The man in the moon would be gigantic!
But we have only one!
KATIE A. QUINN
Soprano
ANDREW MOCK
Piano
Graduate Lecture-Recital
Saturday, May 4, 2002
3:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Lecture
The Night Illuminated:
A Survey of the Role of the Moon and Moonlight
in Selected Poetic and Song Literature
Program
Der Wanderer an den Mond, Op. 80, No. 1 Franz Schubert
An den Mond, Op. 57, No. 3 (1797-1828)
Der Mond, Op. 86, No. 5 Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847)
Mondnacht from Liederkreis, Op. 39 Robert Schumann
(1810-1856)
Clair de lune, Op. 46, No. 2 Gabriel Fauré
(1845-1924)
Clair de lune, Op. 83, No. 1 Jozef Szulc
(1893- 1956)
Clair de lune from Fêtes galantes I Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)
Who knows if the moon’s a balloon? Dominick Argento
from Songs about Spring (b. 1927)
Winter Moon Hoagy Carmichael
(1899-1981)
Jupiter has seven moons Leonard Bernstein
from I Hate Music! (1918-1990)
In partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the
Master of Music in Performance
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The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should please see one of the ushers in the lobby.
Der Wanderer an den Mond
(The Wanderer to the Moon)
Text by Johann Gabriel Seidl
I on earth and you in heaven,
Both of us travel steadily on.
I solemn and sad, you calm and clear:
What can the difference be?
A stranger, I wander from land to land,
Homeless and unknown;
Uphill and down dale, in and out of the
forest,
But I am nowhere, alas, at home.
But you travel up and down,
From western cradle to eastern grave,
You roam from country to country,
And yet are at home, wherever you be.
The infinite expanse of heaven
Is your beloved homeland,
O happy he who, wherever he goes,
Still treads his native soil.
An den Mond
(To the Moon)
Text by Ludwig Hölty
Pour, dear moon, pour your silvery luster
Through this verdant beechwood,
Where phantasms and dream-shapes
Always are drifting past me!
Unveil yourself, that I may find the place
Where my maiden often sat,
And often, under the swaying boughs of
beech and lime,
She forgot the gilded city.
Unveil yourself, that I may delight in the
copse
That rustling, gave her cool shade,
And lay a garland on the sward
Where she listened to the brook.
Then, dear moon, then take up your veil
again
And mourn for your friend,
And weep through the floor of clouds
Even as your forlorn one weeps.
Der Mond
(The Moon)
Text by Emanuel Geibel
My heart is like the dark night
When all the treetops rustle;
The moon rises in full glory
Gently from the clouds, and see!
The wood falls silent and listens
attentively.
Moon, you are the luminous moon;
In the fullness of your love,
Throw me one, just one glance
Full of the peace of heaven, and see!
My raging heart becomes quiet.
Mondnacht
(Moonlit Night)
Text by Joseph Eichendorff
It seemed as if the sky
Had silently kissed the earth,
That she in the shimmer of blossoms
Could only dream of him.
The breeze blew over the fields,
The ears of corn waved gently,
The forests rustled softly,
So starbright was the night.
And my soul spread
Wide its wings,
Flew over the silent lands,
As if it were flying home.
Clair de lune
(Moonlight)
Text by Paul Verlaine
Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masqueraders and
revelers are promenading,
Playing the lute and dancing, and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises,
While singing in the minor key
Of triumphant love, and the pleasant life.
They seem not to believe in their
happiness,
And their song blends with the moonlight,
The quiet moonlight, sad and beautiful,
Which sets the birds in the trees
adreaming,
And makes the fountains sob with ecstasy,
The tall slim fountains among the marble
statues.
KATIE A. QUINN
Soprano
ANDREW MOCK
Piano
Graduate Lecture-Recital
Saturday, May 4, 2002
3:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Lecture
The Night Illuminated:
A Survey of the Role of the Moon and Moonlight
in Selected Poetic and Song Literature
Program
Der Wanderer an den Mond, Op. 80, No. 1 Franz Schubert
An den Mond, Op. 57, No. 3 (1797-1828)
Der Mond, Op. 86, No. 5 Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847)
Mondnacht from Liederkreis, Op. 39 Robert Schumann
(1810-1856)
Clair de lune, Op. 46, No. 2 Gabriel Fauré
(1845-1924)
Clair de lune, Op. 83, No. 1 Jozef Szulc
(1893- 1956)
Clair de lune from Fêtes galantes I Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)
Who knows if the moon’s a balloon? Dominick Argento
from Songs about Spring (b. 1927)
Winter Moon Hoagy Carmichael
(1899-1981)
Jupiter has seven moons Leonard Bernstein
from I Hate Music! (1918-1990)
In partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the
Master of Music in Performance
* * * * * * * * * *
The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should please see one of the ushers in the lobby.
