Graduation Recital: Meghan Mair, voice

April 2, 2025

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 4 p.m.
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Meghan Mair, voice

From the studio of Jennie Such

with
Susan Black, piano
Yvon Arseneault, cello

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

Program

Set 1: Back a Yaad

Banyan Tree from Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart by Peter Ashbourne (1904)
Text by Louise Benett-Coverley (1919-2006)

Set 2: Love and Longing

Se tu Mami by Alessandro Parisotti (1853-1913)
Text by Paolo Rolli (1687-1765)

Lydia, Op. 4, No. 2 by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Text by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)

Frühlingstraum from Winterreise, No. 11 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Text by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827)

Hai Luli from 6 Mélodies et une havanaise by Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)
Text by Xavier de Maistre (1973)

Set 3: Reflection, Nostalgia and Loss

Nachtlied, Op. 71, No. 6 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Text by Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857)

Tyndaris from Étude Latines No. 7 by Reynaldo Hahn (1847-1947)
Text by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

Die Mainacht from 6 Lieder, Op. 9 by Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Text by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748 – 1776)

Élégie by Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Text by Louis Gallet (1835-1898)
with Yvon Arseneault, cello

Set 4: Love’s Comfort and Inner Strength

4 Canzonas by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
I. Non t’accoster all’urna
II. Guarda che bianca la luna
III. Da quell sembiante appresi
IV. Mio ben ricordati
Text by Jacopo Vittorelli (Nos. 1-2) and Pietro Metastasio (Nos. 3-4)

Refuge from Love Songs Vol. II by Matthew Emery (1991)
Text by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Set 5: Walk Good but Come Back Home

Nobody's Business from Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart by Peter Ashbourne (1904)
Text by Louise Benett-Coverley (1919-2006)

Evening Time by Barbara Ferland
Text by Louise Benett-Coverley (1919-2006)

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.