Songs about animals in English and French for World Animal Day.

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Artists

Jonathan Breit, piano
Taylor Chan, piano
Brig Urias, guitar
Angelina Yuan Fen Ho, alto flute

Carson Cook, tenor
Keaton Brown, baritone
Cristina Lanz, mezzo-soprano
Emily Finkelstein, soprano
Danielle Rogers, soprano
Christopher James, countertenor
Christina Yun, soprano
Mahsheed Massarat, mezzo-soprano
Melanie Burman, soprano
Talia Howey, soprano
Melissa Dufort, mezzo-soprano
Cassandra Dixon, soprano
Gabriella Martinez, soprano
Kathryn Rupp, soprano
Isabella Uhl, mezzo-soprano
Natalie Mitchell, soprano
Alaska Coombes, soprano

Program

EE-I-EE-I-O

Aaron Copland
I Bought Me a Cat

Paul Salerni
The Cow in Apple Time

Libby Larsen
A Pig in the House

Emmanuel Chabrier
Villanelle des petits canards
Ballade des gros dindons (turkeys)

Francis Poulenc
Le Chèvre du Tibet (goat)

Peter Tiefenbach
The Lady in Love (pig)

Aaron Copland
All the Pretty Little Horses

Winging It

Maurice Ravel
La Pintade (guinea hen)

Liza Lehmann
from Bird Songs
     The Yellowhammer
     The Wren
     The Owl

Richard Hundley
Sweet Suffolk Owl

Richard Hundley
Birds USA

Creepy Crawly

Samuel Barber
My Lizard

Jake Heggie
The Leather-winged Bat
What the Rattlesnake Said

Emmanuel Chabrier
Les Cigales (crickets)

Tom Cipullo
The Nesconet Crickets

Francis Poulenc
Le Sauterelle                            

Benjamin Britten
The Fly
Proverb 6

Darius Milhaud
La Pomme et l’escargot

Lee Hoiby
The Serpent

- Intermission -

A thing of beauty

Maurice Ravel
Le Paon (peacock)
Le cynge (swan)

Ernest Chausson
Les Papillons (butterflies)
Le Colibri (hummingbirds) 

Tom Cipullo
The Crance at Gibbs Pond

Water life

Francis Poulenc
Ecrivisse
Le Dauphin
Le Carp

Liza Lehmann
Seal Songs

John Woods Duke
The Lobster Quadrille

Where the wild things are

John Woods Duke
The Little Crocodile

Benjamin Britten
Tiger

Francis Poulenc
Le Dromadaire (camel)

Darius Milhaud
Les Quatre Petit Lions

Ricky Alan Gordon
Coyotes

Best friends

Gershon Kingsley
The Green Dog

Daniel Brewbaker
At First He Looked Confused

Paul Salerni
Golden Retrievals

Tom Cipullo
Another reason I don’t keep a gun in the house

Samuel Barber
A Monk and his Cat

Jake Heggie
"In the beginning..."
     from Of gods and cats

Gioachino Rossini
Duetto per due gatti

Victor Hely-Hutchinson
Old Mother Hubbard

Vernon Duke
Ogden Nash’s Musical Zoo