FRANCESCA HURST
pianist
Squires Recital Salon - April 17, 2025 - 8:00pm
VIRGINIA TECH
Reflections (2023) - Elena Kats-Chernin (b. 1957)
Moana (2011) - Jennifer Margaret Baker (b. 1965)
Moon behind a cloud (from Snapshots) - Florence Price (1887-1953)
The Burning Heart (2012) - Michael-Thomas Foumai (b. 1987)
I. Bound
Bound up it always / came undone. / Unbound it was so long. / Now that I have not / Been with you for days / Is your hair all done up? - Mikata Shami
II. Night without end
Night without end. Loneliness. / The wind has driven a maple leaf / Against the shoji. I wait, as in the old days / In our secret place, under the full moon. / The last bell crickets sing. / I found your old love letters, / Full of poems you never published. / Did it matter? They were only for me. - Marichiko
III. Pronoun
Who is there? Me. / Me who? I am me, you are you. / But you take my pronoun. / And we are us. - Marichiko
IV. The whispering snow
At the beginning / Of the night the whispering / Snow fell, and now the stars / Fill this world below on the / Disheveled hair about my face. - Yosano Akin
V. Tangled
Black hair / Tangled in a thousand strands. / Tangled in my hair and / Tangled my tangled memories / Of our long nights of lovemaking. - Yosano Akin
VI. The changing tides
I loathe the twin seas / of being and not being / And long for the mountain / of bliss untouched by / The changing tides. - Hotomaro
Nocturne no. 5 in B-flat major (1817) - John Field (1782-1837)
Nocturne in B-flat Minor, op. 9 no. 1 (1831-1832) - Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne (1892) - Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Nocturnes - Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)
I. Upstage Rhumba (1964)
II. Nostalgia de Mexico (1968)
Light from the Cliffs (2005) - Hilary Tann (1947-2023)
Nocturne in F Minor (2023) - Charlotte Botterill (b. 1989)
"waves collide with the precipice / shattering into 100,000 tiny droplets."