A Canterbury Tale
with Karla Boos, narrator  

*The Miller’s Tale from “The Canterbury Tales”                  Geoffrey Chaucer, c.1343-1400
Angelus ad virginem                                                           anonymous, 14^th century  

*Pride and Prejudice, Chapter VIII                                     Jane Austen, 1775–1817
Queen Mary’s Lamentation                                                 Tommaso Giordani, 1738-1806
   Hannah Baker, soprano
How Sweet in the Woodlands                                               Henry Harington, 1727-1816
   Georgeanna Williams, Yvonne Sterrett, Jane Potter Baumer
Silent Sorrow                                                                      The Duchess of Devonshire , 1757-1806  

*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow                                            Washington Irving , 1783–1859
Windsor                                                                                J. West, f. c. 1790
Decay                                                                                  Stephen Jenks, 1772-1856
Babylonian Captivity                                                           Elkanah Kelsay Dare, 1782-1826  

*As You Like It, Act V. Scene III                                        William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
O Weary Night from “Four Ballads of Shakespeare, #2”       Juhani Komulainen, b. 1953  

*The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream,       John Bunyan, 1628-1688
    The Second Part  

The Lord is my Shepherd from “Pilgrim’s Journey”              Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958

INTERMISSION

*The Portrait of a Lady, Chapter XXVII                              Henry James, 1843–1916
Miserere Mei                                                                      Gregorio Allegri, 1582-1652
    Hannah Baker, Kate Clark, Audrey Russo, Stan Nevola, quartet  

*Little Women, Chapter 43                                                     Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888
Mignon’s Song                                                                     Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827  

*The Merchant’s Tale from “The Canterbury Tales”              Geoffrey Chaucer
Surge propera amica mea                                                    Ivan Moody, b. 1964  

*Busman’s Honeymoon                                                       Dorothy L. Sayers, 1893-1957
Rio Grande                                                                          traditional
Shenandoah                                                                        James Erb, b. 1926
New York Girls                                                                    Kirke Mechem, b. 1925  

*denotes origin of excerpt