Forgotten Women
Oct 21, 2025

Amy Beach – Summer dreams op. 47 

1: The brownies
2: Robin Redbreast
3: Twilight
4: Katy-Dids
5: Elfin Tarantelle
6: Good night

Germaine Tailleferre – Image 

Chaminade – Six pièces romantiques op. 55

1: Primavera
2: La chaise à porteurs
3: Idylle arabe
4: Sérénade d’automne
5: Danse hindoue
6: Rigaudon

Marie Jaëll – Valses op 8 No. 1-4

Intermission 

Fanny Mendelssohn – Drei Stücke für Klavier zu vier Händen

1: Allegretto
2: Allegro molto
3: Allegretto Grazioso

Jane Savage – A favorite duett

Mel Bonis – Berceuse  

Mel Bonis – Songe de cleopatre op 180

Marie Jaëll – Voix du printemps

1: Sur la grande route
2: Dans le sentier
3: L’orage
4: Idylle
5: Nuit de Mai
6: Plein jour

Amy Beach

The brownies: 
Through the house give glimmering light
By the dead and drowsy fire
Every elf and fairy sprite
Hop as light as bird from brier – Shakespeare
Robins Red breast:
In country lanes the robins sing
Clear-throated, joyous, swift of wing,
From misty dawn to dewy eve
(Though cares of nesting vex and grieve)

Their little heart-bells ring and ring – Lüders

Twilight

The birds have hushed themselves to rest

And night comes fast, to drop her pall

Till morn brings life to all – Amy Beach

Katy-dids

The katy-did works her chromatic reed

On the walnut tree over the well – Whitman

Elfin Tarantelle 

Fairies, black, gray, green, and white, 

You moonshine revelers, and shades of night – Shakespeare

Good night 

Goodnight! The crimson scented rose

Droops low her pretty head

And the little grasses long ago

Their evening prayers have said

Night’s starry eyes are blinking

At the moonbeams silvery light

While the lily hides her golden heart

And whispers soft, – “Goodnight” – Lockhart

Germaine Tailleferre

Cécile Chaminade 

Marie Jaëll

Fanny Mendelssohn

Jane Savage

Mel Bonis