Graduation Recital: Kate Markwart, soprano

March 24, 2025

Sunday, April 13, 7:30pm, 2025
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Kate Markwart, soprano

From the studio of James McLean

with
Elvera Froese, piano
Naomi Schlegel, soprano

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

Program

Opening Song

The Mermaid Song by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Poetry by Anne Hunter (1742-1821)

Set No. 1: The Mystical Nature

I Fauni from Dietà Silvane, No. 1 by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Poetry by Antonio Rubino (1880-1964)

Love’s Philosophy, Op. 3, No. 1 by Roger Quilter (1827-1953)
Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Lorelei (1843) by Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Poetry by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Die Elfe from Lieder und Gesänge, I. No. 6 by Joseph Marx (1882-1964)
Poetry by Joseph von Eichendorff (1880-1951)

Set No. 2: A Conflict of Sorts

3 Songs by Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
The Clown - Poetry by Maurice Baring (1874-1945)
Possession - Poetry by Ethel Carnie (1886-1962)
On the Road - Poetry by Ethel Carnie (1886-1962)

Intermission

Set No. 3: The Magic in Music

Fairy Lullaby from Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 37, No. 3 by Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Poetry by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

La Fée aux Chanson from 2 Melodies, Op. 27, No. 2 by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Poetry by Armand Silvestre (1837-1901)

Neue Liebe from 6 Songs, Op. 19a, No. 4 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Poetry by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Set No. 4: The Friends We Meet Along The Way

Thank Goodness from Wicked by Stephen Schwartz (b. 1948)

Les Cavaliers, duo pour voix, VWV4039 by Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)
Poetry by Louis Pomey (1835-1901)
with Naomi Schlegel, soprano

La Partenza from Soirées Musicales, No. 3 by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Poetry by Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

Closing Song

Goodnight Moon (2012) by Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
Poetry by Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952)

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.