Music at Noon: Julie Lumsden, voice

Oct. 14, 2025

Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, noon
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Julie Lumsden, voice
Kate Carver, piano

Program

Excerpts from 5 Songs on Poems of Marilyn Dumont by Ian Cusson (b. 1981)
I. Letter to Sir John A. MacDonald
II. The Red & White
III. Helen Betty Osborne
V. The Devil's Language

Joy Alone (Connection) from Natural Selection by Jake Heggie (b. 1961)

Steal Me, Sweet Thief from The Old Maid and The Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)

Someone To Watch Over Me from Oh, Kay! by George (1898-1937) & Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)

Every Time We Say Goodbye by Cole Porter (1891-1964)

What Good Would The Moon Be from Street Scene by Kurt Weill (1900-1950) & Langston Hughes (1901-1967)

Fight For Me from Heathers: The Musical by Kevin Murphy & Laurence O'Keefe

No One Else from Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy

Lost from Fugitive Songs by Chris Miller & Nathan Tysen

Conversation by Joni Mitchell

Program Note

Today we celebrate the chaos of crossover! Join Julie as we take a walk through contemporary art song through opera, past jazz standards, into the land of musical theatre and back out in folk song!

We ask that patrons take photos only during intermission and/or after the show and do not record audio or video unless otherwise announced at the beginning of the show.

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that Wilfrid Laurier University and its campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe (Anish-nah-bay) and Haudenosaunee (Hoe-den-no-show-nee) peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolizes the agreement to share, protect our resources and not to engage in conflict. From the Haldimand Proclamation of Oct. 25, 1784 this territory is described as: “six miles deep from each side of the river (Grand River) beginning at Lake Erie and extending in the proportion to the Head of said river, which them and their posterity are to enjoy forever.” The proclamation was signed by the British wit​h their allies, the Six Nations, after the American Revolution. Despite being the largest reserve demographically in Canada, those nations now reside on less than five percent of this original territory.