Newbury Spring Festival

Thursday, 11 May 1989
Woolley Park, Wantage

The Menagerie

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Julius Drake (piano)
with their guest Susan McCulloch (soprano)

Thomas Arne: Where the Bee Sucks
Michael Tippett: Where the Bee Sucks
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumble Bee

From a Letter to the Times: The Cuckoo
Benjamin Britten: Cuckoo
From a Letter to the Times: The Cuckoo
Tom Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

Vivaldi: Il Pastor Fido

Schubert: Im Freien
Stravinsky: Pastorale
Rameau: The call of the birds
Sir Julius Benedict: The Gypsy and the Bird

Geoffrey Twigg: The Chicken / The Duck
James Thurber: The Little Girl and the Wolf
Fats Waller: Alligator Crawl

Interval

Poulenc: Five songs from La Courte Paille

Graham Williams: Paeon for a falcon
Derek Melville: Sweet Suffolk Owl
Madeleine Dring: My heart is like a singing bird

Ibert: The Little White Donkey
Richard Hageman: The Donkey

Puccini: Un Bel Di from Madame Butterfly

Traditional: There was a Lady Loved a Swine
Roald Dahl: The Three Little Pigs
Flanders/Swann: The Warthog

Henry Bishop: Lo, Here the Gentle Lark