Graduation Recital: Naomi Schlegel, soprano

April 8, 2025

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 7:30 pm.
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Naomi Schlegel, soprano

From the studio of Kimberly Barber

with
Anna Ronai, piano
Yvon Arseneault, cello

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honours Bachelor of Music: Performance

Program

Set One: Serenity

Frühlingsstimmen Op. 410 by Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Poetry by Richard Genée (1823-1895)

Frühlingsglaube D. 686 by Franz Schubert (1797-1899)
Poetry by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862)

Le papillon et la fleur Op. 1 by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Poetry by Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Villanelle by Eva dell’Acqua (1856-1930)
Poetry by Frédéric van der Elst (1832-1859)
with Yvon Arseneault, cello

Set Two: Sehnsucht

Erlafsee D. 586 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Poetry by Johann Mayrhofer (1787-1836)

Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume by Rudolf Sieczyński (1756-1791)

Ridente la calma K. 152 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
After Josef Mysliveček (1737-1781)

La pastorella delle alpi from Soirée Musicales by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868A)
Poetry by Count Carlo Pepoli (1796-1881)

Abendempfindung K. 523 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Poetry by Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818)

Set Three: Affinity

Il bacio by Luigi Arditi (1822-1903)
Poetry by Gottardo Aldighieri (1824-1906)

Je t’aime by Isabelle Aboulker (b. 1938)

Set Four: Belonging

from Love Songs: Volume 1 by Matthew Emery (b. 1991)
Poetry by Sarah Teasdale (1884-1933)
I. Come when the pale moon like a petal floats
IV. When I am gone
V. Gifts

Guide me home by Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) and Mike Moran (b. 1948)
with Yvon Arseneault, cello

Lyrics and Translations

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Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that Wilfrid Laurier University and its campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe (Anish-nah-bay) and Haudenosaunee (Hoe-den-no-show-nee) peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolizes the agreement to share, protect our resources and not to engage in conflict. From the Haldimand Proclamation of Oct. 25, 1784 this territory is described as: “six miles deep from each side of the river (Grand River) beginning at Lake Erie and extending in the proportion to the Head of said river, which them and their posterity are to enjoy forever.” The proclamation was signed by the British wit​h their allies, the Six Nations, after the American Revolution. Despite being the largest reserve demographically in Canada, those nations now reside on less than five percent of this original territory.