Join the Wagner College Choir & Chamber Singers and the Stretto and Espresso vocal ensembles for their spring concert, “A Pocketful of Songs,” on Sunday, May 1 at 4 p.m. at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 309 St. Pauls Ave., Staten Island.
The program, to be conducted by Roger Wesby with piano accompaniment by Barbara Wesby, will feature songs by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Arthur Altman & Jack Lawrence, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Sting, Johannes Brahms, Aaron Copland, Randall Thompson and more.
The public is invited. Tickets are $15 at the door; students enter free with ID.
On the program
Spring is here! Love is in the air!
- Madrigals by Claude Le Jeune, Thomas Morley and Henry Purcell
Of love and gossipy neighbors
- Brahms, “Der gang zum Liebschen,” “Nein es ist nicht auszukommen”
Of birds, and lakes, of oceans
- Charles Stanford, “The Blue Bird”
- Charles Wood, “Full Fathom Five”
Of rivers, walking, and dancing — iconic Americana
- James Erb, “Shenandoah”
- Aaron Copland, “The Boatman’s Dance”
- Randall Thompson, “The Road Not Taken”
- Irving Fine, “The Lobster Quadrille”
- Copland, “Stomp Your Foot”
Of animals, love and the human psyche
- Paul Hindemith, “La biche,” “Un cygnet”
- Francis Poulenc, “La blanche neige”
Our American Songbook
- George Gershwin, “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise”
- Jerome Kern, “The Way You Look Tonight”
- Altman & Lawrence, “All or Nothing at All” (after Sinatra & Riddle)
Pop Corner
- Sting, “Fields of Gold”
- The Youngbloods, “Get Together”
- Paul Simon, “Bridge over Troubled Water”
Four from the Fab Four
- John Lennon, “Come Together,” “Because” and “Rain”
- Paul McCartney, “Yesterday”