Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004

Sonata in E-flat Major (1789/90)              Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
        Allegro (non troppo)
        Adagio cantabile
        Finale - tempo di minuetto

Ballade in F-minor Op. 52                      Frederic Chopin (1810-1847)

Sonatine                                              Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
        Modéré
        Mouvement de Menuet
        Animé

Fantasia Baetica                                   Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

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Intimations of Immortality

 (Click here  to see the beautiful poster designed by David Soltess of Mount Royal College Conservatory)

Romantic Poetry and Music

Jim Dobbin and Grant Paterson with Peter Jancewicz, pianist 

Leacock Theatre, Mount Royal College, Saturday, May 27^th, 2006, 8 P.M.

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey                William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Sonata in A-major, Op. 101, I                                                        Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Ode to the West Wind                                                                    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

In der Nacht                                                                                     Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Sonetto 104 del Petrarca                                                              Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Ode to a Nightingale                                                                     John Keats  (1795-1821)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad                                        John Keats
“The Firste Pavian”  from My Ladye Nevells                              William Byrd (1543-1653)
Booke of Virginal Music (excerpts)                               

 Kubla Khan                                                                                    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Scherzo #3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39 (excerpts)                        Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) 

Intermission

The Cataract of Lodore                                                               Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64 #1, “Minute”                                 Frederic Chopin

Rondeau                                                                                       Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)

She Walks in Beauty                                                                    Lord Byron (1788-1824)          

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways                                    William Wordsworth

When I Have Fears                                                                     John Keats

Ozymandias                                                                                 Percy Bysshe Shelley

I Am                                                                                              John Clare (1793-1864)

The World Is Too Much With Us                                                 William Wordsworth

Evening on Calais Beach                                                           William Wordsworth

Ballade #4 in F-minor, Op. 52 (excerpts)                                  Frederic Chopin

Impromptu in A-flat major, Op. 90 #4                                          Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Ode on a Grecian Urn                                                                  John Keats

Intermezzo Op. 119 #1                                                                Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

The Romantics

The age of Romanticism was an age of revolutions.  The revolutionary spirit of the time brought together a brilliant confluence of poets, writers, musicians, and painters.  The array of creative energy we now call Romantic is as remarkable for diversity as for fruitfulness.  Though distinct in individual genius, the artists of the period share the impulses of liberation and energy.  The philosophical rebellion underpinning the movement asserted the power of individual experience and feeling: the imagination, not the intellect, as the gateway to the spiritual and the transcendent.  Artists were freed from the precepts and constraints of reason and order that typified the Enlightenment.  Inherent to the movement is a reverence for nature and a desire for wholeness, a unifying vision of humanity, nature, and society.  Besides all this, the free-spiritedness of the age allowed an exploration of a wide range of other themes: a belief in the innate goodness of Man, individualism, revolt against political authority and social convention, a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality; a love for the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, the diseased, and even the satanic.