Mockingbird
Ensemble for Early Music

Irene Kaufmann, recorders, crumhorn
Susan Marchant, recorders, crumhorn, viola da gamba
Ronald Vernon, tenor, recorders, crumhorn

with special guests:
Greg Johnson, bass recorder, percussion
Warren Steel, harpsichord, hammered dulcimer, recorders, baroque guitar

Tenth Annual

Musical Celebration of Spring


Ecco la primavera . . . . . . . . . . . Francesco Landini (1325-1397)

Welcome and introduction

Divisions for recorder and viol . . . . Christopher Simpson (d. 1669)

Reading an anthology of Chinese poems of the Sung Dynasty,
  I pause to admire the length and clarity of their titles
                                               Billy Collins (b.1941)

Beata progenies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lionel Power (c.1370-1445)

Love's Philosophy                    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Doulce memoire . . . . . . . Pierre Regnault "Sandrin" (ca.1490-1561)

Recercada sobre Doulce memoire . . . . .  Diego Ortiz (ca. 1525-1570)

The Music We Are                             Jelaluddin Rumi (b.1270)

Fugue from "Art of Fugue" . . . . . Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Spring is a cat                               Jang-hi Lee (1902-1928)

Three selections from the "Glogauer Liederbuch" (ca. 1480) 
  1. Dy katzenpfote (The Cat's Paw)

Sojourns from the Parallel World             Denise Levertov (b.1923)

  2. Dy ezelscrone (The Ass's Head)

Direction Sign in London Zoo                Gregory Corso (1930-2001)

  3. Der fochs schwantz (The Fox's Tail)

when faces called flowers float out of the ground
                                            e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
                                


Fantasia I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Anthony Holborne (d.1602)

Watermelons                                    Charles Simic (b.1938)

Fantasia II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Anthony Holborne 

The Divine Image                            William Blake (1757-1827)


Sonata in F major  . . . . . . . . Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Blood Suckers from Hell                               Jelaluddin Rumi

Selections from "The English Dancing Master" . . John Playford (1703)
   Zephyrs and Flora
   Juice of Barley
   Knole Park
   Loxley Figure Eight


Sunday, March 23, 2003, 3:00 PM

Power is safest in a poet's hands,
thus for the artist
God will
pose.
Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (c.1320-1389)

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