Love, Romance and Other Misadventures

Featuring Elissa Johnston, soprano & Jamal Moore, bass

June 8th, 2024

7:30 PM

RCC Coil School of the Arts

Join us June 8th for this lovely, loving and lively concert. We have two captivating soloists who will mesmerize your senses.

Elissa Johnston takes us on a journey, celebrating spring and love in songs written by Berioz:

“Spring has come, my lovely,
It is the month blessed by lovers;
And the bird, preening his wing,
Speaks verse from the edge of his nest.
Oh! come now to this mossy bank
To talk of our beautiful love,
And say to me in your sweet voice:
"Always!"“

Followed by melancholy and the fear of the unattainable.

Jamal Moore will sing songs written by Mozart. Mozart takes a more light-hearted take on love and in his song Madamina, sung by Don Giovanni's servant Leporello to Elvirayou will hear:

“In winter he likes fat ones.
In summer he likes thin ones.
He calls the tall ones majestic.
The little ones are always charming.
[…]
It doesn't matter if she's rich,
Ugly or beautiful;
If she wears a skirt,
You know what he does.”

This and many more masterpieces will get you in a romantic mood and ready for this summer.

PROGRAM

MOZART
Symphony #26 in E-flat major, K. 184

BERLIOZ
Le nuits d’ete (summer nights)
Soloist: Elissa Johnston

~Intermission

CIMAROSA
Udite, tutti udite from Il Matrimonio Segretto (Secret Marriage)

MOZART
Madamina, il catalogo e questo "The catalogue Aria" from Don Giovanni
~

Non piu andrai from Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Soloist: Jamal Moore

J. STRAUSS II
Emperor Waltz

~
On the beautiful blue Danube

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