Today at 3pm I performed a recital at the church in Berkeley where I sing on Sundays. It went wonderfully and it was good to have the opportunity to work up a whole gob of repertoire all at once. I performed with a wonderful trumpet player, a violinist, two different keyboard players, and an alto singer. All of my colleagues were fabulous and I thought we really made some music together. We also had a good audience; it probably approached 100 people. Even better, they were very enthusiastic with their clapping.

Here is what I sang:

Music for Soprano and Friends

Movement IV from Cantata 51, “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen”
—J.S. Bach

Art Songs by Living Composers
I dreamed of you
How many times
—Jennifer Young (that's me!)

A love poem in July
—Wayne Eastwood

Four Songs for Voice and Violin, Op. 35 (Gustav Holst)
II. My soul has nought but fire and ice
III. I sing of a maiden that matchless is
IV. My Leman is so true of love

Folk songs for voice and violin
In the Morning, from Along the Field (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Searching for Lambs (arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams)
The Foggy Dew (arr. Wayne Eastwood)

Five Duets for Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano
Herbstlied, Op 63, No. 4
Gruß, Op. 63, No. 3
Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein, op. 63 No. 6
Abendlied
Wasserfahrt
—Felix Mendelssohn

Let the Bright Seraphim, from Samson
—Handel

The two art songs of mine that I performed were a gift to my husband. I wrote them right after we got engaged (March 2004), but set them aside and gave them to him for our one-year wedding anniversary (July 2007). This was the first time he got to hear them, and I think he was pleased. They're not sappy sentimental songs; they incorporate the dark primal nature of love along with the happiness.