The Nature of Love is a vocal recital featuring local soprano Madison Ford. Including works by Schubert, Schumann, Mozart, Strauss, Dvořák, Quilter, and others, the program is united by themes of flowers, nature, and longing, tracing the many faces of love through fifteen songs in four languages, from Renaissance lute song to contemporary American music.

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Madison Ford is a soprano based in Portland, Oregon with a background spanning classical performance, professional musical theatre, and musical improv. She returns to the classical recital stage this August with The Nature of Love, a program exploring the intersection of the natural world and the human heart through song.

PROGRAM

Have You Seen but a White Lily Grow — Robert Johnson
Heidenröslein — Franz Schubert
Du Bist Wie Eine Blume — Robert Schumann
Das Veilchen — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Lotosblume — Robert Schumann
Meine Liebe ist Grün — Johannes Brahms
To Daisies — Roger Quilter
Love's Philosophy — Roger Quilter
A Last Year's Rose — Roger Quilter
Song to the Moon — Antonín Dvořák
Die Zeitlose — Richard Strauss
Wild Swans — Ricky Ian Gordon
Flower Duet (Duo des fleurs) from Lakmé — Léo Delibes
Clouds — Ernest Charles
The Last Rose of Summer — arr. Anne L. Christopherson