Carnegie Hall presents

Sylvia McNair, soprano
New York Recital Debut

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
-"Sweeter than Roses"
-"Knotting Song"
-"The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation"

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Mörike Lieder
-"Schlafendes Jesuskind"
-"Auf einer Wanderung"
-"Das verlassene Mägdelein"
-"Nixe Binsefuss"
-"Nimmersatte Liebe"
-"Er ists's"

Richard Strauss (1792-1868)
Drei Ophelia Lieder, from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Op. 67
-"Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb?"
-"Guten Morgen, 's ist Sankt Valentinstag"
-"Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss"

Three Songs
-"Einerlei," Op. 69, No. 3
-"Die Nacht," Op. 10, No. 3
-"Hat gesagt," Op. 36, No.3

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
I Hate Music!
(A Cycle of Five Kid Songs for soprano)
-"My name is Barbara"
-"Jupiter has Seven Moons"
-"I Hate Music!"
-"A Big Indian and a Little Indian"
-"I'm a Person Too"

La Bonne Cuisine (Four Recipes)
-"Plum Pudding"
-"Ox-tails"
-"Tavouk Gueunksis"
-"Rabbit at Top Speed"

Two Love Songs (1949)
-"Extinguish my eyes"
-"When my soul touches yours..."

-"Somewhere" from West Side Story
(arr. Roger Vignoles)

Carnegie Hall

May 1, 1992

Weill Recital Hall
Carnegie Hall
New York, NY

Sylvia McNair, soprano
Roger Vignoles, piano

Concert

Newspaper article review

Classical Music in Review
Sylvia McNair, soprano, Weill Recital Hall
by James R. Oestreich

New York Times
May 5, 1992