MUSIC BOX
Karen Neal, soprano and Melinda Coffey Armstead, piano
Prelude
A Grateful Heart … George Herbert (1593-1632)/Mary Plumstead (1905-1980) Simple Gifts . . . American Shaker hymn, arr. by Mark Hayes Though I May Speak (I Corinthians 13). . . English folk tune, arr. John Weaver A Simple Song from Mass. . . Stephen Schwartz & Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
How Can I Keep From Singing? . . . American folksong, arr. by Richard Walters
Liverpool . . . American folk hymn (1823), arr. Gilbert M. Martin
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
– Annie Dillard
