Marty Heresniak, B.M., M.M

voice teacher

502 University Avenue #1L
Ithaca, NY 14850-3869

voxnaturalis@alumni.ithaca.edu

607-272-2892

member

National Association of Teachers of Singing

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STUDIO DAYS

These occasional performances provide an opportunity to test the skills we have developed, to learn about "nerves" first-hand in front of a friendly audience, and to share repertory and ideas. These performance days are often held in the studio, but may also be held in local recital halls or other venues to allow for a larger student population and invited audience.

Studio Days often have a theme or common thread running through the program. We may concentrate on a particular style, on the works of a single composer, or other similarity. Some of our recent programs follow below.


YEAR END PROGRAM

29 April 2006

O Del Mio Dolce Ardor
Christoph Willibald von Gluck

Ici-bas
Gabriel Fauré

Come Again, Sweet Love
John Dowland

Amarilli, Mia Bella
Giulio Caccini

Let Me Wander, Not Unseen
from L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato
Georg Frederic Handel

Lark & Nightingale Duet
Stephen Collins Foster
lyrics from Romeo and Juliet of William Shakespeare

Glendale Train
John Dawson

True
Ryan Cabrera

Better Together
Jack Johnson

Merlin’s Lament
Dave Carter

Summertime
from Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
lyrics DuBose Heywood

Ain’t Misbehavin’
from Hot Chocolates
Fats Waller
lyrics Andy Razaf & Harry Brooks

When You Wish Upon a Star
from Pinocchio
Leigh Harline
lyrics Ned Washington

Imagine That
from Sherry
Laurence Rosenthal
lyrics James Lipton

Don’t Go to Strangers
Evans, Kent, and Mann




SONGS of JEROME KERN

12 November 2005

Martha Armstrong, May Brinn, Jodi Zhao, and I sang a program of all Kern songs with Molly MacMillan at the piano at the Kendal of Ithaca auditorium as a Saturday afternoon program for the residents and guests. Great fun and a fine way to get some performance experience.

I’ve Told Every Little Star
from Music in the Air (1934)

Long Ago and Far Away
from Cover Girl (1944)

All the Things You Are
from Very Warm for May (1939)

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
from Roberta (1935, 1969)

The Way You Look Tonight
from Swing Time (1936)

You Couldn’t Be Cuter
from Joy of Living (1938)

They Didn’t Believe Me
from The Girl from Utah (1914)

Ol’ Man River
from Show Boat (1929, 1936, 1951)

I’m Old-Fashioned
from You Never Were Lovelier (1942)

Yesterdays
from Roberta (1935, 1969)

The Song is You
from Music in the Air (1934)

Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man
from Show Boat (1929, 1936, 1951)

The Last Time I Saw Paris
from Lady Be Good (1941)

A Fine Romance
from Swing Time (1936)

I Won’t Dance
from Roberta (1935, 1969)

Pick Yourself Up
from Swing Time (1936)


SONGS of SALVATORE ANTONIO GUARAGNA
(HARRY WARREN)

24 April 2005

This was so much fun! Every student prepared a Harry Warren tune, with me at the piano, ready to give a recital in the old "stand in the front of the auditorium and sing your song" mode. Ha! When they arrived we did a few warm-up exercises and sang three verses of "We Shall Overcome" then there was noise from the next room. We moved into the non-auditorium space where a cabaret was set up and a jazz combo of guitar, clarinet, bass, and drums was at the ready. Everyone got to go up to 'sit in' with the band. I've not had that much fun since, well, I can't say that on my website!

Nagasaki (1928)

I Found a Million Dollar Baby
from Crazy Quilt (1931)

You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me
from Forty-Second Street (1932)

Boulevard of Broken Dreams
from Moulin Rouge (1933)

The Gold Diggers’ Song
from Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Shadow Waltz
from Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

I’ll String Along with You
from Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

I Only Have Eyes for You
from Dames (1934)

Lullaby of Broadway
from Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

About a Quarter to Nine
from Go Into Your Dance (1935)

Lulu’s Back in Town
from Broadway Gondolier (1935)

With Plenty of Money and You
from Gold Diggers of 1937 (1937)

September in the Rain
from Melody for Two (1937)

Jeepers Creepers
from Going Places (1938)

You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
from Hard to Get (1938)

I Know Why (And So Do You)
from Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

At Last
from Sun Valley Serenade (1942)

I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo
from Orchestra Wives (1942)

Serenade in Blue
from Orchestra Wives (1942)

There Will Never Be Another You
from Iceland (1942)

No Love, No Nothin’
from The Gang’s All Here (1943)

You’ll Never Know
from Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)

The More I See You
from Diamond Horseshoe (1945)

I Wish I Knew
from Diamond Horseshoe (1945)

That’s Amore
from The Caddy (1953)

An Affair to Remember
from An Affair to Remember (1957)


END OF SUMMER PERFORMANCES

25 September 2004

Panis Angelicus
César Franck

Precious Lord
Thomas A. Dorsey

Die Zufriedenheit
W. A. Mozart

Vedrai Carino
from Don Giovanni
W. A. Mozart

Embraceable You
from Girl Crazy
George Gershwin

Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
from Oklahoma!
Rodgers & Hammerstein

Think of Me
from The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Taylor, the Latte Boy
Goldrich & Heisler


LOVE SONGS

Requited and Un~

Students and I performed this program on March 20, 2003
with pianist Jerry Attardo
for the Classical Dinner Hour at Moosewood Restaurant

Three British Songs
arr. Roger Quilter

Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
Believe Me If all those Endearing Young Charms
The Ash Grove

The Sally Gardens
arr. Benjamin Britten

Love's Old Sweet Song
Hermann Löhr

There is a Ladye
Winifred Bury

O del mio amato ben
Stefano Donaudy

And then her doctor told her ...
Nicolas Slonimsky

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Roger Quilter

Barcarolle
duet from The Tales of Hoffman
Jacques Offenbach

Mattinata
Ruggiero Leoncavallo

In the Midst of the Ball
Peter Tchaikovsky

Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
John Jacob Niles

Lascia ch'io pianga
from Rinaldo
Georg Frederic Händel

Early in the Morning
Ned Rorem

The Cabin
Paul Bowles

Nel cor piú non mi sento
duet from L'amor contrastato
Giovanni Paisello

Torna à Sorriento
Ernesto de Curtis

The Hippopotamus
Flanders & Swann


DEBUTS

31 January 2004

Ain't Misbehavin'
Waller, Razaf, & Brooks

In the Still of the Night
Fred Parris

Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
Coffin & King

Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
J. F. Hanley

Don't Go to Strangers
Evans, Kent, & Mann

I've Got You Under My Skin
Cole Porter

Leningrad
William Martin Joel

Do It Again!
Gershwin & DeSylva


A PROGRAM in the FOLK STYLE

27 April 2003

Shenandoah
(American Folk Tune, arr. Jay Althouse)

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
(American Spiritual, arr. Harry T. Burleigh)

Jackero
(British Folk Tune)

Esa Enai
(Yitzchak Rosenthal)

The Water is Wide
(British Folk Tune, arr. Mark Hayes)

The Ash Grove
(Welsh Folk Tune, arr. Roger Quilter)

Dink's Song
(American Folk Tune, collected by Lomax Brothers)

Somewhere In Between
(Jason Wade)

Wayfaring Stranger
(American Folk Tune, arr. Jay Althouse)

The Fox Went Out
(British/American Folk Tune)

Go 'Way from My Window
(John Jacob Niles)


Ein Deutsches Liederabend

14 April 2003

Bist du bei mir
from Notebook for Anna Magdelena Bach
Lyric: Johann Sebastian Bach / Music: Johann Sebastian Bach

Heidenröslein
Lyric: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Music: Franz Schubert

Du bist die Ruh'
Lyric: Friedrich Rückert / Music: Franz Schubert

An die Musik
Lyric: Franz von Schober / Music: Franz Schubert

Three Songs from Dichterliebe
Lyric: Heinrich Heine / Music: Robert Schumann

Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
Aus meinem Tränen spriessen
Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne

Widmung
Lyric: F. Rückert / Music: Robert Schumann

Seerose
from Rosenlieder
Lyric and Music: Philipp zu Eulenberg

Sapphische Ode
Lyric: H. Schmidt / Music: Johannes Brahms

Wiegenlied
Lyric: ? / Music: Johannes Brahms

Wir Wandelten
Lyric: Georg Friedrich Daumer / Music: Johannes Brahms

Anakreons Grab
Lyric: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Music: Hugo Wolf

Der Gärtner
Lyric: Eduard Friedrich Möricke / Music: Hugo Wolf

Auch kleine Dinge
Lyric: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse / Music: Hugo Wolf

Lilacs
Lyric: Katherina Betekoff / Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Die Nacht
Lyric: Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg / Music: Richard Strauss

Morgen!
Lyric: John Henry Mackay / Music: Richard Strauss


PROGRAM

28 April 2002

Far From the Home I Love
from Fiddler on the Roof
Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock

Momma, Look Sharp
from 1776
Sherman Edwards

Out Here on My Own
from Fame
Lesley & Michael Gore

Embraceable You
from Crazy for You
George & Ira Gershwin

He Was Too Good to Me
from Simple Simon
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

I've Got a Crush on You
from Strike Up the Band
George & Ira Gershwin

My Lovely Celia
George Munro

Auf Flügeln Des Gesanges
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (lyric by Heinrich Heine)

Lascia ch'io pianga
from Rinaldo
Georg Friederich Handel


Studio Day

(The Summer Students)

30 September 2001

Oh My Love
John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Yossel Der Klezmer
Feingold-Gross

At Last
from Orchestra Wives
Harry Warren & Mack Gordon

Crazy He Calls Me
Carl Sigman & (Bob Russell

Anacreon's Grab
Hugo Wolf (lyric by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

There is a Ladye
Winifred Bury (lyuric by Thomas Ford)

You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
from South Pacific
Rodgers & Hammerstein


Studio Day

5 May 2001

The Way You Look Tonight
from Swing Time
Jerome Kern (lyric by Dorothy Fields)

A Whole New World
from Aladdin
Alan Menken (lyric by Tim Rice)

They Never Told Me
Mikael Holmgren

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
from Oklahoma!
Rodgers & Hammerstein

There's a Small Hotel
from On Your Toes
Rodgers & Hart

It Never Entered My Mind
from Higher and Higher
Rodgers & Hart

What Am l Here For?
from A Star Is Born
Harold Arlen & Ira Gershwin

My Man
Maurice Yvain & Channing Pollack

0, Rest in the Lord
from Elijah
Felix Mendelssohn

To the Sky
American Folk Song, adapted by Carl Strommen

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Roger Quilter (lyric by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

I Got it Bad (and That Ain't Good)
from Jump for Joy
Duke Ellington (lyric by Paul Francis Webster)

Everything Must Change
Bernard lghner


STUDIO DAY

26 April 1998

Let's Get Together

Come Rain or Come Shine
from St. Louis Woman
Harold Arlen

I Got it Bad (and That Ain't Good)
from Jump for Joy
Ellington & Webster

When I Take My Sugar to Tea
from the film Monkey Business
Fain, Kahal, & Norman

I Have Dreamed
from The King and I
Rodgers & Harnrnerstein

Think on Me
Lady John Scott (lyrics by Mary, Queen of Scots)

Dear Friend
from She Loves Me
Bock & Harnick

Bring Him Home
from Les Miserables
Claude-Michel Schönberg


STUDIO DAY

25 April 1998

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Gorney & Harburg

Buddy on the Nightshift
from Lunch Time Follies
Weill & Hammerstein

Solitude
Edward Kennedy Ellington

Agua de Beber
Antonio Carlos Jobim

La Paloma
Sebastián Yradier

Rinnakkain
Harry Woods

One of Those Nights Tonight
Longacre & Giles

Bist du bei mir
Johann Sebastian Bach

I'm Called Little Buttercup
from H. M. S Pinafore
Gilbert & Sullivan

Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
arr. Roger Quilter

Gonna Be Another Hot Day
from 110 in the Shade
Jones & Schmidt

The Simple Joys of Maidenhood
from Camelot
Lerner & Loewe

Poor Wandering One
from The Pirates of Penzance
Gilbert & Sullivan

from Die Schöne Mullerin
Franz Schubert

Halt!
Danksagung an den Bach