ProArte ends its season with a program devoted to romance: the rapture of new love, the melancholy of lovers parted, the tender laments for those remembered in elegy, the joy of wedded love. Romance is celebrated in art and in dance. Likewise, romantic love is an ever-familiar theme in music. While many are eager to praise love’s delights, we also do well to reflect on its sadness or regrets? An entertaining and thoughtful program filled with beautiful singing by one of Ohio’s premier professional vocal ensembles, the performance invites each listener to come away and enjoy an afternoon with ProArte as it explores the profound feelings associated with romance and love through partsongs, French chanson, and familiar folksongs from the British Isles.

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Program

Love’s Infatuation 
Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One – Healey Willan   
Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder – Claude Debussy
It Was a Lover and His Lass – Matthew Harris

Lovers Parted
The Turtle Dove – arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams 
Scarborough Fair – arr. Fraser Wilson             
Loch Lomond – arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams       

Lovers Betrayed
My Sweetheart’s Like Venus – arr. Gustav Holst   
Greensleeves – arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams       
The Water is Wide – arr. Joseph Flummerfelt

Four French Folksongs – Francis Poulenc
Margoton va t'a l'iau 
La belle se sied au pied de la tour 
Clic, clac, dansez sabot 
Pilons l’orge          

Lover’s Elegies  
Good Night, Dear Heart – Dan Forrest  
Somewhere (from Westside Story) – Bernstein / Edgerton   

Wedded Love
Flower of Beauty – John Clements                       
She Moved Through the Fair – arr. Daryl Runswick
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron – arr. John Rutter