The opening concert of the Koivu ja Tähti Festival SUMMERTIME

The opera singer coupleTepponen-Greenlaw will be starting the festival with summery breezes from both artist’s native countries, Finland and the USA. Among the composers are names like  Merikanto, Kuula, Bernstein and Gershwin.

Marjukka Tepponen soprano

Kevin Greenlaw baritone

Salla Karakorpi piano

PROGRAM

Oskar Merikanto:

Merellä – On the Sea

Elämälle – To life

Toivo Kuula: 

Sinipiika -The Blue Maid

Suutelo – The Kiss

Jean Sibelius:

Romance op.24 no. 9

Illalle – To the evening

Våren flyktar hastigt – Spring passes swiftly

Höstkväll – Autumn Evening

Var det en dröm – Was it a Dream

Tanken – The Thought

Paul Bowles:

Blue Mountain ballads

1. Heavenly grass
2. Lonesome man
3. Cabin
4. Sugar in the cane

INTERMISSION

Samuel Barber:

Sure on this shining night

A green lowlands of pianos

A solitary hotel

Cole Porter:

Kiss me Kate

Where thine that special face

So in love Where is the life that late I led

George Gershwin:

Prelude 1 & 2

Porgy and Bess

My man’s gone now

Summertime

Bess you is my woman now