National Art Collections Fund 85th Anniversary Concert
The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
Wednesday, 16 March 1988, 7.45pm
The Menagerie
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
with their guests…
Bruce Morrison (narrator)
Penelope Walker (mezzo)
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
GF Handel: Spring
From a Letter to the Times, 4 February 1913: The Cuckoo
Benjamin Britten: Cuckoo
From a Letter to the Times, 6 February 1913: The Cuckoo
Hely Hutchinson: Old Mother Hubbard (in the style of Handel)
Edward Thomas: Adelstrop
Rameau: The Call of the Birds
Trad. arr. Tate: A Lark in the Clear Air
Anon: London Wildlife
Tom Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Igor Stravinsky: Pastorale
Igor Stravinsky: Berceuse from The Firebird
Aaron Copland: Little Horses
Samuel Barber: I Hear an Army
James Thurber: The Little Girl and the Wolf
Cole Porter: Wow-ooh-Wolf
Interval
Kenneth Graham: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (from Wind in the Willows)
Benjamin Britten: Pan
Michael Tippett: Come unto these Yellow Sands
Michael Tippett: Where the Bee Sucks
Sir John Lubbock: The Flapping of a Fly’s Wing
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Truman Capote: Music and Chameleons
Claude Debussy: Pour les Danseuses des Crotales
Claude Debussy: Le Petit Berger
J Maynard Grover: On Counting Sheep
Geoffrey Twigg: The Duck
Lewis Carroll: The Crocodile
Fats Waller: Alligator Crawl
Herbert Howells: King David
WB Yeats: Wild Swans at Coole
Saint-Saens: The Swan
Traditional: There was a Lady Loved a Swine
Roald Dahl: The Three Little Pigs
Flanders/Swann: The Warthog