Wednesday 19 March 2025
6pm
Milton Court Concert Hall
American Songbook Company
Wendy Gadian project leader
Charlie Morgan movement & choreography
Jonathan Jarvis piano
Roberta Philip soprano
Kayla Raschke soprano
Chloé Underwood soprano
Georgina Cohu mezzo-soprano
Becky Haisell mezzo-soprano
Eleanor O'Driscoll mezzo-soprano
Abbie Ward mezzo-soprano
Twm Tegid Brunton baritone
Jacob Dyksterhouse baritone
Matias Carbonetti Schwanek baritone
Archie Kidd guitar
Louis Gascoyne bass
Natan Kedzierski drums
Digital Programmes
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Milton Court
Eating is not permitted in the auditorium. Drinks are allowed inside the auditorium in polycarbonates.
Filming or recording of the performance is not permitted.
Latecomers will be able to enter the auditorium at a suitable break in the performance.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Founded in 1880 by the City of London Corporation
Chair of the Board of Governors
The Hon. Emily Benn
Principal
Professor Jonathan Vaughan
Vice-Principal & Director of Music
Armin Zanner
Programme
This performance is dedicated to the memory of Michael Harper.
‘History Has Its Eyes on You’ from Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda
‘Ex-Wives’ from Six
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss
‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’ from A Damsel in Distress
George and Ira Gershwin
‘Somebody Loves Me’ from George White’s Scandals
George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald and Buddy De Sylva
‘From This Moment On’ from Kiss Me Kate!
Cole Porter
‘Here I Am!’ from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
David Yazbek
‘Double Talk’ from City of Angels
Cy Coleman and David Zippel
A Foggy Day
George and Ira Gershwin
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Manning Sherwin and Eric Maschwitz
From Russia with Love
Lionel Bart
Nobody Does it Better
Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager
‘Arthur in the Afternoon’ from The Act
John Kander and Fred Ebb
‘Secret Love’ from Calamity Jane
Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster
Blues In the Night
Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Gerry Goffin and Carole King
Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa
Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Anyone Who Had a Heart
Burt Bacharach and Hal David
‘The Man That Got Away’ from A Star is Born
Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin
‘How Could I Ever Know?’ from The Secret Garden
Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman
Don’t Explain
Arthur Herzog Jr. and Billie Holiday
Triste
Antônio Carlos Jobim
‘When the Chips Are Down’ from Hades Town
Anais Mitchell
‘Defying Gravity’ from Wicked
Stephen Schwartz
Alfie
Burt Bacharach and Hal David
‘What Kind of Fool Am I?’ from Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
‘Tears’ from Moments in Sonder
B.E. Boykin and Maya Angelou
‘Who Will I Turn To?’ from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of The Crowd
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
‘Somewhere’ from West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Three Waltzes by Noel Coward:
‘Someday I’ll Find You’ from Private Lives
‘I’ll See You Again’ from Bitter Sweet
‘I’ll Follow My Secret Heart’ from Conversation Piece
Forthcoming Events
20–25 March
Milton Court Studio Theatre
Outstanding performers from the first year of Guildhall School’s Opera Course present classical and contemporary operatic excerpts featuring scenes from operas by composers including Monteverdi, Massenet and Britten.
26 March 2025
Milton Court Concert Hall
Outstanding vocal students from Guildhall School present a captivating selection of opera scenes, with music direction by Alexander Ingram and stage direction by Guido Martin-Brandis.
8 May 2025
Barbican Hall
Join for Guildhall School’s most prestigious music prize and see three exceptional soloists from the School’s Vocal and Opera departments perform with piano accompaniment and with Guildhall Symphony Orchestra.
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