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Thread #101744   Message #2055290
Posted By: Haruo
18-May-07 - 04:03 AM
Thread Name: Who's going to NW Folklife this year?
Subject: RE: Who's going to NW Folklife this year?
For the first time, I am actually responsible for an item in the program, a musical item no less. An Esperanto sing-along. Here's the

Tentative playbill
Kantu Seatlo! – Kantu Kanade: Across the 49th in Esperanto
Northwest Folklife Festival – Seattle Center Narrative Stage
Friday, May 25, 2007 – 5:00 PM


Mozart's "Alphabet Song" variations (K.265), 1781-1834
        Traditional / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Haruo Ros'

Adiaŭ Vi
        Aloha 'Oe, 1878 / H M Liliuokalani / Paul Bennemann

Valparajson Remboate
        Valparaiso in a Rowboat, 1997 / Zeke Hoskin / Haruo Ros'

Frida Akvo
        Cool Water, 1941 / Bob Nolan / Haruo Ros'

Odo al Puĝetio
        Ode to Puget Sound, 1944 / Carlton Fitchett / Haruo Ros'

Min venu milde
        Come Softly to Me, 1959 / Fleetwoods / Haruo Ros'

La Ventoj Severaj
        Śmiało podnieśmy sztandar nasz w górę ("Whirlwinds of danger"), 1879
        Józef Pławiński / Anonymous

La Negrokvartala Pavobal'
        The Darktown Strutters' Ball, 1917 / Shelton Brooks / Haruo Ros'

Hantrajdo sur Ĉiel'
        Riders in the sky, 1949 / Stan Jones / Haruo Ros'

Kantu Haleluja!
        ? / Haruo Ros'

La Stelplena Standardo
        The Star-spangled Banner, (National anthem of the United States, 1814)
        Francis Scott Key / William George Adams

Kanado, Vi!
        O Canada!, (Canada's national anthem, 1880-1906)
       Calixa Lavallée / Adolphe Basile Routhier / Robert Stanley Weir / Vilma Sindona Eichholz

Supre ĉe l' juna Rejn'
        Oben am jungen Rhein (Liechtenstein's national anthem, 1850)
       Jakob Josef Jauch / Haruo Ros'

La Espero
        (The Hope: the Esperanto movement's anthem, 1891)
       L L Zamenhof / Félicien Menu de Ménil

The music will be largely led by the Mel/Munro Duo, a couple of Seattle singers (Verne Eke and Reiff Olsen) who have several of these in their regular repertoire as they work the retirement/Oddfellows circuits. I hope the Polish came out right; encoding it took a dozen "Previews" ;-)...

Haruo
Hope to see some Mudcatters there.