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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