FACULTY ARTIST SERIES THE GREENEST ISLE Music and Poetry of Ireland PAULA PAGE, harp LYNN PHILLIPS, soprano TEJAS ENGLESMITH, reader Thursday, March 19, 1987 8:00 p. m. in Hamman Hall

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PROGRAM: Fidelity and marriage. The blackbird and the thrush / traditional ; arr. Marson -- On an island / J. M. Sygne -- She moved through the fair / arr. Marson -- Marriage / Austin Clarke -- A good roarin' fire / tradiional ; arr. Page -- Battle's harvest. The county of Mayo / version: G. fox -- Dobbin's flowery vale / traditional ; arr. Hughes-Page -- The stare's nest by my window / W. B. Yeats -- Johnny I hardly knew ye / traditional ; arr. Hughes -- Exiles / A. E. (George Russell) -- Inis fál / Egan O'Rahilly -- The great day / W. B. Yeats -- The glories of Brien the Brave / Thomas Moore ; arr. Balfe -- More power / Egan O'Rahilly -- This night sees Ireland desolate / Aindrais MacMarcuis -- Shule agra / arr. Marson -- A grafted tongue / John Montague -- New love and courtship. I will walk with my love / traditional ; arr. Hughes -- A present of butter / version: Earl of Longford -- The stars stand up in the air / version: Thomas MacDonagh -- Down by the sally gardens / W. B. Yeats ; arr. O'Hara -- The lovers / anonymous -- Love / anonymous -- I have a bonnet trimmed with blue / traditional ; arr. O'Hara -- Lay your arms aside / Pierce Ferriter -- I know where I'm goin / traditional ; arr. Hughes -- O woman, shapely as the swan / version: Padraic Colum ; The star of the county Down / arr. Page -- Parted by death's door. Draherin-O-Machree / Bard of Thomond ; arr. Phillips-Page -- The dream / William Allingham -- At the mid hour / Thomas Moore ; arr. Molley -- The sea ritual / George Darley -- Danny boy / Weatherby ; arr. O'Hara -- Folklore, life and legends. The snoring bedmate / version: John Kelleher -- Haigh didil dum / traditional ; arr. Calthorpe -- The song of Fionnuala / Thomas Moore -- Silent O Moyle / Thomas Moore / arr. anonymous -- The outlaw of Loch Lene / version: J. J. Callanan -- The Gartan mother's lullaby / S. MacCathmhail ; arr. Calthorpe -- Onyons / Jonathan Swift -- Triads / anonymous 9th century -- Oro my little boat / traditional ; arr. O'Hara -- A curse / verion: Douglas Hyde -- The leprechaun / Dr. W. P. Joyce ; arr. Calthorpe -- Ancient Irish blessing / anonymous