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Sheila Jones Harms
May 29, 1931
December 12, 2004

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Pro Musica / April 6, 2002

The Pro Musica Concert on April 6, 2003, took place at Dorothea Kelleys' house at 4808 Drexel, at 3:00 P.M.

Sheila Harms and Sara Chason

Sara Chason, accompanied by Sheila Jones Harms,  performed Five Elizabethan Songs for Voice and Piano by Ivor Gurney - an English Composer who lived from 1890 to 1937.

GURNEY, IVOR. Born in Gloucester in 1890 and died at Dartford in 1937, aged forty-seven. He was a choir-boy and then assistant organist of Gloucester Cathedral; he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, served in the army 1914-18, was wounded and gassed, returned to the College and completed his studies, and then appeared before the public with a certain number of delicate songs, piano-forte works, and chamber music compositions and orchestral works, all of which exhibited great promise. The effects of his war service, however, unfortunately caused his retirement from the active practice of his profession and his art to the seclusion of a mental hospital.
From THE OXFORD COMPANION TO MUSIC  by PERCY A. SCHOLES

Songs By Ivor Gurney

1. Orpheus - text by William Shakespeare
2. Tears -Text by John Fletcher
3. Under the Greenwood Tree - text by William Shakespeare
4. Sleep - text by John Fletcher
5. Spring - Text by Thomas Nashe

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Young Artists Showcase

Featured on the same program was also a Young Artists Showcase featuring Andrea Vijverberg, piano, and Christine Barron,violin, accompanied by Faye Corkin, piano.

1. Sonata No 27 in e-minor,
   Op. 90 by Beethoven
2. "Fantasie Impromptu" for Piano, No. 4 in c-sharp minor,
   Op. 66 by Frederick Chopin
3. Prelude No. 5 in g-minor,
   Op. 23, by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Andrea Vijverberg, piano

4. Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in a-minor,
   Op 28, by Camille Saint-Saens

Christine Barron, Violin, with Faye Corkin, Piano

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