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

Rise My Love, My Fair One – Healey Willan            
My Sweetheart’s Like Venus – arr. Gustav Holst                    
Greensleeves – arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams                             
The Water is Wide – arr. Joseph Flummerfelt         
Scarborough Fair – arr. Fraser Wilson             
The Turtle Dove – arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams                                                                        
Loch Lomond – arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams                                                                                 

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

Let My Love Be Heard - Jake Runestad                      
   Somewhere (from Westside Story) – Bernstein / Edgerton
   My Flower of Beauty – John Clements                            
   Perfect Love – Patrick Hawes                                           
   Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron – arr. John Rutter