Created for the National Federation of Women’s Institutes 75th anniversary
Songs about the Passage of Life
THE LITTLE GIRL There are fairies With the doll (from The Nursery Cycle) In Isas bed (from A Garland for Marjory Fleming) |
Liza Lehmann Modeste Mussorgsky Richard Rodney Bennett |
THE TEENAGER I enjoy being a girl (from Flower Drum Song) I'm so pretty (from West Side Story) |
Richard Rogers Leonard Bernstein |
LONGING FOR LOVE Someone to watch over me (from Oh Kay) O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicci) |
George Gershwin Giacomo Puccini |
IN LOVE I could have danced all night (from My Fair Lady) |
Frederick Lowe |
THE BRIDE Dream o'day Jill Chiquitita la Novia |
Edward German Fernando Obradors |
THE MOTHER Lullaby To the children Bluette Romance |
Peter Tchaikovsky Serge Rhachmaninov Mathilde de Rothschild |
THE CAREER LADY Business girls Other people's babies (from Streamline) Usherette's blues |
Madeleine Dring Vivian Ellis |
OLD AGE Bessie Bobtail Song of a nightclub proprietress |
Samuel Barber Madeleine Dring |
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