LIFEWIRE: SEVEN ESSAYS ON THE LOVE OF LIFE

2 August 2002
All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chicago

PROGRAM

I.

Morning an assemblage by Ted Hearne

II.

Reading: from Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Music: On Children by Ysaye Barnwell

III.

Reading: from Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Music: from love, war and politics by James Bassi

IV.

By the numbers information and impromptu interview compiled by Ted Hearne
Music: I’m Seventeen Come Sunday English folk song arr. Percy Granger

V.

Readings: Man Thou Art, Reflections on Israel at 50, Wildpeace by Yehuda Amichai
Passport, I Am From There by Mahmoud Darwish
Music: St. Ita’s Vision by Samuel Barber
Au bord de l’eau by Gabriel Faure
A Boy Like That and Somewhere (from West Side Story) by Leonard Bernstein

VI.

Reading: Terror at the Local Deli by Josh Gilbert
Music: Music of the Warriors (Cuban Bata ensmble)

VII.

Reading: Two Poems by Langston Hughes
Music: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot arr. Moses Hogan
Hold on! Arr. Ted Hearne
I Feel Like Goin’ On

PERFORMERS
Marissa Famiglietti, soprano
Nythia Rivera, soprano
Isaiah Robinson, tenor
Humbolt Park Arts-Co Op, Afro-Cuban bata ensemble
Gary Geiger, piano
Liz Panella, flute
Ted Hearne, conductor
Readings by Molly Dunn, Nia Easley, Stephanie Hicks, Sarah Moberg and John Poulos
Choir: Julia Betley, Ken Carter, Ryan Cox, Laura Dixon, Nia Easley, Anthony Fett, Jonah Gaster, Jonathan Green, Leila Green, Anna Hendricksen, Rana Higgins, Karen Jesse, Lisa Laws, Sarah Moberg, Nythia Rivera, Isaiah Robinson, Rachel Robinson, Lisa Roth, Allison Semmes, Gilad Shanan, Taylor Strickling