| From: Karen Mercedes To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: Re: Rep question Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Jean-Ronald LaFond wrote:
> Can anyone name an american song or aria with a woman's (girl's) name in > the title that is as powerful and engaging as Ave Maria. It's a specific > request from a student: Challenge to the rep divos and divas out there.
How about...
Samuel Barber: Andromache's Farewell, Op. 39 - for dramatic soprano
Douglas Moore: Augusta! Augusta! How can you turn away? (from THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE) - for dramatic mezzo-soprano
George Gershwin: Bess, you is my woman now (from PORGY AND BESS) - for bass-baritone
Karen Mercedes ===== There is delight in singing, tho' none hear Beside the singer. - Walter Savage Landor ----- http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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