Graduation Recital: Alexander Muth, voice

April 2, 2025

Saturday, April 12, 2025, 4 p.m.
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Alexander Muth, voice

From the studio of Brandon Leis

with
Anna Ronai, piano
Yvon Arsenault, cello

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honours Bachelor of Music: Performance

Program

Job’s Curse, Z. 191 by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Chi in amore ha nemica la sorte from Amore traditore, BWV 203 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Two Songs on Poems by Eduard Mörike

Der Genesene an die Hoffnung by Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
An eine Äolsharfe, Op. 19, No. 5 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Two Bestiaires

Le bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, FP 15a by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
I. Le dromadaire
II. La chèvre du Thibet
III. La sauterelle
IV. Le dauphin
V. L’écrevisse
VI. La carpe

Le bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, Op. 17a by Louis Durey (1888-1979)
XIII. La mouche
XXV. Ibis
XXVI. Le boeuf

Involuntary Love Songs by Jocelyn Morlock (1969-2023)
I. Thaw
II. Matches
III. Script

A Different Bestiaire

Mirages, Op. 113 by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
I. Cygne sur l’eau

La souris, FP 162, No. 1 by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Schwanengesang by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
XIV. Die Taubenpost, D. 956a

Lyrics and Translations

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Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that Wilfrid Laurier University and its campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe (Anish-nah-bay) and Haudenosaunee (Hoe-den-no-show-nee) peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolizes the agreement to share, protect our resources and not to engage in conflict. From the Haldimand Proclamation of Oct. 25, 1784 this territory is described as: “six miles deep from each side of the river (Grand River) beginning at Lake Erie and extending in the proportion to the Head of said river, which them and their posterity are to enjoy forever.” The proclamation was signed by the British wit​h their allies, the Six Nations, after the American Revolution. Despite being the largest reserve demographically in Canada, those nations now reside on less than five percent of this original territory.