Eleven composers were represented on a program running over two hours: Jack Gottlieb, Francis Poulenc, Camille Saint-Seans, Reynaldo Hahn, Peter Tchaikovsky, Manuel de Falla, Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, Libby Larsen, Ricky Ian Gordon, Leonard Bernstein, and the decision was made to produce a song recital with fully professional voices, the only exceptions being the inclusion of the CBST community chorus for the prelude and closing numbers, and for a string quartet to… [read post]