Thursday, May 27 at 7:30 pm
Lilian Piercey Concert Hall, Halifax
Tickets: $20 Students: $10 at the door, (high school, university and mature)

Andrea Grant, piano
Joseph Angelo, Tenor
Allison Angelo, Soprano
Tracy Reynolds, Mezzo-Soprano

The St. Cecilia ticket outlet in Halifax is at Bookmark at 5686 Spring Garden Rd. Tickets can also be reserved by calling (902) 423-0143.

Buy a book at Bookmark and receive your adult ticket at half-price.

Students who purchase at Bookmark must present their receipt at the door on the night of the concert to reduce their ticket price.

Program

Rodgers & Hammerstein:
It's a Grand Night for Singing (State Fair)

W.A. Mozart (Tutti)
Quoniam (Mass in C minor)

Xavier Montsalvage
Cinco Canciones Negras - (Tracy Reynolds)
Cuba Dentro de un Piano
Punto de Habenera (siglo XVIII)
Chévere
Canción de Cuna Para Dormir a un Negrito
Canto Negro

Debussy
Quatre Chansons de Jeunesses - (Allison Angelo Bent)
Pantomime
Clair de lune
Pierrot
Apparition

Songs by Paolo Tosti (Joseph Angello)
La Serenata
Ideale
Marechiare

Richard Strauss
Sein wir wieder gut (from Ariadne auf Naxos) - (Tracy Reynolds)

Henri Duparc
La Fuite

Harry Somers
The Owl and the Pussycat - Harry Somers (Tutti)

J. Strauss
Selections from Die Fledermaus
- Chacun a son gout
- Clock duet
- Mein Herr Marquis
- So muss allein ich bleiben... O je, o je, wie ruhrt mich dies

‘It’s a Grand Night for Singing… at Home!’

Program includes a ‘bouquet’ of Springtime Favourites’

Featuring two of Nova Scotia’s most talented musical vocal artists, Allison Angelo and Tracy Reynolds.

Joining Angelo and Reynolds on stage are tenor Joseph Angelo and ‘collaborative pianist’ Andrea Grant.

Hailed as “A fabulous discovery” by the Toronto Star’s John Terauds, Canadian soprano Allison Angelo is emerging as a talented and versatile young singer who is rapidly gaining recognition on the operatic and concert stage. Halifax audiences, who’ve known her as Allison Bent, will recall her vocalizing from the local stage and the International Tattoo.

Mezzo-soprano Tracy Reynolds, originally from Liverpool is also well on her way to an exciting performance career. Tracy Reynolds studied at Acadia University with Marie McCarthy. Her repertoire extends from Mozart to Kurt Weill.

Toronto-born tenor Joseph Angelo began his career as a Chorister at St. Michael’s Choir School, later graduating from the University of Toronto. This season he has appeared with Toronto Operetta Theatre and workshopped the role of Seth in Colin Mack & Sharon Singer’s ‘Isis and Osiris’.

Andrea Grant is a full time member of the music staff at the University of Toronto’s Opera Division and a faculty member at the Banff Centre. Her career encompasses international stages and she has been heard in recital on CBC, BBC and RTE, Radio Ireland.

‘It’s a Grand Night for Singing’ is, of course, taken from ‘State Fair’ by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It leads off a program which includes Mozart, selections of Debussy songs, Harry Somers’s ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ and a bouquet of Richard Rodgers’ songs.

(Program continued)

A Richard Rodgers tribute...
- I Have Dreamed (The King & I)
- We Kiss in a Shadow (The King & I)
- I'm just a girl who can't say no (Oklahoma)
- I'll Tell the Man in the Street (I Married an Angel)
- The Sound of Music (The Sound of Music)
- Climb every mountain (The Sound of Music) - You'll Never Walk Alone (Carousel)