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Evan Mitchell DMA Voice Recital

Evan Mitchell, tenor
Vincent Fuh, piano

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Program 

A Young Man’s Exhortation      Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
I. A Young Man’s Exhortation
II. Ditty
III. Budmouth Dears
IV. Her Temple
V. The Comet at Yell’ham
VI. Shortening Days
VII. The Sigh
VIII. Former Beauties
IX. Transformations
X. The Dance Continued

Intermission

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne       Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
I. Oh my blacke Soule
II. Batter my heart
III. O might those Sighes and Teares
IV. Oh, to vex me
V. What if this present
VI. Since she whom I loved
VII. At the round Earth’s imagined corners
VIII. Thou hast made me
IX. Death, be not proud

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A performance for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree of Evan Mitchell, tenor, with Vincent Fuh, piano. Gerald Finzi’s “A Young Man’s Exhortation” and Benjamin Britten’s “The Holy Sonnets of John Donne” reflect two song cycles portraying the equal themes of love and life in 20th century British art song.