Why can we recall a melody from childhood yet struggle to remember a name? In Wanting Memories, Cantus explores the enduring bond between music and memory — how, as memories fade, music can remain our final connection to who we are. Anchored by Ysaÿe M. Barnwell's Wanting Memories and threaded with timeless songs like Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World, the program moves through nostalgia and family, loss and love, grief and hope.
Program
- Bob Thiele, George David Weiss: What a Wonderful World
- Tim Minchin: From Matilda, When I Grow Up
- Christopher H. Harris: I Would Live in Your Love
- Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe: From Gigi, I Remember It Well
- Stevie Nicks: Landslide
- Ysaÿe M. Barnwell: Wanting Memories
- Sydney Guillaume: Gagot
- Mia Makaroff: Spes (Hope)
- Dolly Parton: Light of a Clear Blue Morning
- Traditional Spiritual (arr. Paul John Rudoi): Yonder Come Day
- Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg: Over the Rainbow
- Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal: I’ll Be Seeing You