portrait by Hayley Masom

Mother, I will have a husband!

Or, the Illusion of Romance. A programme of English song and Italian aria.

Sue Hutton, mezzo-soprano

Gill Hawkes, piano

Christchurch Methodist, Field Street, Shepshed, LE12 9AL

Saturday 1st October 2005, 7.30 pm

Programme Notes

  • Mother, I will have a husband - Jacob
  • Any girl of fifteen and over - Mozart
  • An Epithalamium - Purcell
  • Two British folk songs arranged by Britten
  • Sweet Polly Oliver
  • O can ye sew cushions
  • The Sky above the Roof - Vaughan-Williams
  • Where corals lie - Elgar
  • When old men wish to be married - Rossini

Interval

  • Porgi amor - Mozart
  • Dido's lament - Purcell
  • Two songs by Gershwin
    • Nice work if you can get it
    • The man I love
  • Senza Mamma - Puccini
  • Stride la vampa - Verdi
  • September Song - Weill
  • Someone to watch over me - Gershwin