SMU Meadows School of the Arts

Spring 2025 Graduate Recital

April 27, 2025

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Description

Akosua Achiah Adwini-Poku, mezzo soprano

Final Graduate PD Recital

featuring:

La Lucrezia, G.F. Handel's miniature operatic scena for soprano and continuo, depicting Lucrezia's inner turmoil after her assault leading to her suicide, beseeching the gods to take vengeance on Sextus Tarquinius, the Son of the last king of Rome, who robbed her of her virtue

Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy-Songs), J.S. Brahms' solo arrangement of his Song cycle of Hungarian folk love songs

Stride la Vampa!, Azucena's fiery opening aria from ll Trovatore by G. Verdi

Beside the Sea, Florence B. Price's beautifully yearning art song based on the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, followed by her spirited song cycle of Four Encore Songs, with poetry from Graham Lee Hemminger, Ogden Nash, and Thomas Moore

Eat the Rich, composed by Melissa Dunphy with lyrics by Ozzie Jones slyly critiquing the excesses of our 21st-century New Gilded Age

IN COLLABORATION WITH:

Katia Dinas, piano

Braylon Hughes, cello