THE MUSIC BOX
Katherine Edison, soprano
Robert Armstead, bass-baritone
Melinda Coffey Armstead, piano & organ
Chapel Concertino for St. Valentine's Day
Concertino
Love in the Dictionary . . . Celius Dougherty (1902-1986)
My Dearest, My Fairest . . . Daniel Purcell (1664-1717)
Les Chemins de l’Amour . . . Jean Anouilh/Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Some Enchanted Evening . . . Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)/Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960)
Dream With Me . . . Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
How Do You Keep the Music Playing? . . . Alan & Marilyn Bergman/Michel Legrand (b. 1932)
The Gift of Love . . . American folk tune, arr. Hal Hopson (b. 1933) based on I Corinthians 13
Offertory
Come, Thou Fount . . . John Wyeth/arr. by Craig Courtney (b. 1948)
Postlude
The Glory of Love . . . Billy Hill (1899-1940)
Jim Gaffigan: “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be …. well, January.”
H. L. Mencken said, “Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.” We dedicate today’s music to the contrary certainty that he was wrong, or at best lonely and embittered. And still wrong. (Although why Cupid came to be an infant attacking you with a bow and arrow invites puzzlement.) To deny love is to deny reality, and if carried to its logical extreme would leave few of us around to argue about it.
And from George Herbert (1651) : “Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.”
