Sun., Oct. 25, 1998

The Music Department presented "Made in America: Scenes from American Life," a faculty recital by mezzo-soprano Lynn Helding and pianist Jennifer Blyth, at 3:00pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall.  Helding and Blyth performed Virgil Thomson's "Let's Take a Walk"; Charles Ives' "Two Flowers (and dedicated to them)", "The Greatest Man", and "Tom Sails Away"; Ricky Ian Gordon's "Genius Child"; Ned Rorem's "Early in the Morning" and "Look Down Fair Moon"; Stephen Paulus' "Bashful Moon"; William Bolcom's "Toothbrush Time"; John Musto's "Litany", "Recuerdo", and "Silhouette"; Christopher Berg's "Prelude: Fabian's/Song: Is it Dirty?" and "Poem"; Dominick Argento's "Parents"; Daron Hagen's "Holy Thursday"; Chris DeBlasio's "Walt Whitman in 1989"; Theodore Chanler's "Be Very Quiet Now (an epitaph); Richard Hundley's "The Astronomers (an epitaph)"; Samuel Barber's "Heavenly Banquet"; Aaron Copland's "Zion's Walls"; and the African-American spiritual "Ride On, King Jesus!"