Songs celebrating women will be the focus of "All About Her: Songs about Women We Know or Have Heard
Of," a free concert by the chamber vocal ensemble Opus 181 Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Wood County
Public Library.
The concert brings together a variety of songs with texts about women. The recital mixes folk and popular
songs with art songs, pieces from the Renaissance with 20th century songs.
Jesse Koza will be the soloist on "And Yet I Love Her Till I Die" by C.H.H. Parry.
Tin Bunce and Ann Corrigan will be featured on "Country Girls," from Benjamin Britten’s opera
"Gloriana."
The program also includes Impressionistic pieces by French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
The ensemble will contrast Renaissance English madrigals by Thomas Morley and John Farmer with later
pieces from England by Robert Lucal Pearsall and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
The group will sing, in Portuguese, an arrangement of a Brazilian folk song, "Muie Rendera,"
which translates "Lacemaker Woman," and the popular "Nelly Bly" by Stephen Foster.
The chorus was founded in 2008 by Mark Munson, of the faculty of Bowling Green State University, and
features professionally trained musicians living in the area.
Members of the chorus are: Mark Blake, Mark Bunce, Tina Bunce, Chris Clark, Theresa Clickner, Ann
Corrigan, Tom Gorman, Beth Holdgreve, Jesse Korza, Anne Laiho, Lisa Morgan and James Vaughn.
