From: Margaret Harrison
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: Re: Rep question
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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.

Your student will have to decide it any of these are "as powerful and engaging as Ave
Maria"!

"I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair", a lovely Stephen Foster song.

Bernstein and Sondheim's "Maria"

Rodgers & Hammerstein's "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria"

"If You Knew Susie"? No, I guess not!

"Once in Love with Amy" by Frank Loesser, from "Where's Charlie?"
(this song is one reason my parents gave that name to my sister)

"Rose's Turn" from Gypsy - definitely powerful, though I think of it as more of a scene
than a song.

"Luck be a Lady", from Guys and Dolls, though not exactly a woman's name

"It Was Mary" (I think that's the title) by George M. Cohan (featured in the movie Yankee
Doodle Dandy)

"Secondhand Rose" - I don't know who wrote it, but it was a Fanny Brice song also recorded
by Barbra Streisand.

I know there's a song with my name (Peggy) in the title, but darned if I can think of what
it is at the moment!

Peggy

--
Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
"Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile"
mailto:peggyh-at-ix.netcom.com