The Voice of Margery Tede

Professor William Corbett-Jones leads a concert of contemporary music in memory of alumna Margery C. Tede, a mezzo-soprano well known in the Bay Area for her luminous voice and support of the arts.

This concert celebrates Mrs. Tede’s work and the music of those she collaborated with during her life: Kirke Mechem, Roger Nixon, Gordon Getty, Ron McFarland, Jon Sutton and Virgil Thomson.

Mrs. Tede (M.A., Humanities, ’64) performed in critically acclaimed roles in operas throughout the U.S., Europe, Central America and Asia and founded and led the American Concert Association, which provides scholarship funds to aspiring artists.

The Tede family wishes to recognize the American Concert Association, of which Mrs. Tede was the founder and guiding spirit over many years.

Program

• Sutton: From A Child’s Garden of Songs (Robert Louis Stevenson)
My Ship and I
The Swing
Farewell to the Farm
The Lamplighter
Armies in the Fire
Escape at Bedtime
• Mechem: Goodbye, Farewell and Adieu–Three Songs of Parting, Op. 33
Since There’s No Help (Michael Drayton)
Parting, Without a Sequel (John Crowe Ransom)
Let It Be Forgotten
• Nixon: Three Transcendental Songs on Poems by Walt Whitman
Youth, Day Old Age and Night
Gliding O’er All
On the Beach at Night
• Getty: From The White Election (Emily Dickinson)
I Sing to Use the Waiting
She Bore It
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend
I Like to See It Lap the Miles
• McFarland: Century Songs
What Man May Learn
What Man May Be
Beside the Gates of Gold
The Household Muse
• Thomson: Two songs from Mostly About Love