From Paris to Sedona

April 25, 2025 - 4:00 pm

Sandrine Erdely-Sayo (b. 1968)
Hymn to Sedona
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano; Barbara Di Toro, soprano; Sara Catarine, soprano; Sonja Bruzauskas, mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Peña, narrator

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Banalités: Hôtel Voyage à Paris, poem by Guillaume Apollinaire

Les Chemins de l’amour, poem by Jean Anouilh
Sara Catarine, soprano; Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Nuages Gris, S.199 Unstern! Sinistre, Disastro, S.208 La Lugubre Gondole, S.200

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) General Lavine - Eccentric from Prelude Book II, No.6

Bernard Herrmann(1911-1975)
Prelude, Crime and Final (from “Psycho”)
Jean-Marc Luisada, piano

Camille Saint-Saëns(1835-1921)
Danse Macabre (arr. Liszt/Horowitz)
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano

Intermission

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Dolly Suite op. 56 for piano four hands Berceuse Mi-a-ou Le jardin de Dolly Kitty-Valse Tendresse Le pas espagnol
Jean-Marc Luisada, piano; Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano

Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree Sam Stept, music - Lew Brown & Charles Tobias, Lyrics

I’ll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time Albert von Tilzer, music - Neville Fleeson, Lyrics Barbara Di Toro, soprano; Sara Catarine, soprano; Sonja Bruzauskas, mezzo-soprano; Madeleine Hehn, piano

Maurice Ravel (1875 -1937)
Sonatine
Cynthia Raim, piano

Aaron Copland (1818-1893)
Danza Jalipso
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano 1; Cynthia Raim, piano 2

America the Beautiful Samuel A. Ward, arranged by Harland L. Pinney; Arr. 2 pianos by Sandrine Erdely-Sayo Poem by Katharine Lee Bates Sara Catarine, soprano; Barbara Di Toro, soprano; Sonja Bruzuaskas, mezzo-soprano; Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano 1; Madeleine Hehn, piano 2

April 26, 2025 - 4:00 pm

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Deux mélodies hébraïques, (Two Hebrew Songs)
I. Kaddish
II. L'énigme éternelle, The Eternal Enigma
Sara Catarine, soprano - Madeleine Hehn piano

Gabriel Fauré (1945-1924)
Nocturne No. 2 in B Major, Op. 33
Madeleine Hehn, piano

5 Melodies (from Venise) Op. 58, poems by Paul Verlaine
Mandoline - Mandolin
En Sourdine - Muted
Green - Green
A Clymène - To CLymène
C’est l’extase langoureuse - It is languorous rapture
Sonja, Bruzauskas, mezzo-soprano; Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano

Intermission

Domenico Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Sonata in D major
Sonata in B minor
Sonata in D major
Cynthia Raim, piano

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) Op. 12
Des Abends - In the Evening
Aufschwung - Soaring, literally Upswing
Warum? - Why?
Grillen - Whims
In der Nacht - In the Night
Fabel - Fabel
Traumes- Wirren - Dream’s Confusions
Ende vom Lied - End of the Song
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, Piano

April 27, 2025 - 4:00 pm

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1885)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op. 42
Cynthia Raim, piano

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Billy the Kid
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano 1 - Cynthia Raim, piano 2

Intermission

Anna Rubin (b. 1946)
Strata of Silk and Rock
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, piano

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) The Stars and Stripes Forever for 2 pianos , eight hands - Arranged by
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, Cynthia Raim; piano 1; Connor Chee, Madeleine Hehn, Piano 2 Barbara Di Toro, soprano; Sara Catarine, soprano; Sonja Bruzuaskas, mezzo-soprano