Shirley, George

Performances

• 
  02-11-1973

  Hill Auditorium
  • Orfeo ed Euridice: J'ai perdu mon Eurydice
    • Composer: Gluck, Christoph W.
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Les berceaux; Op. 23, no. 1
    • Composer: Fauré, Gabriel
    • Author: Sully-Prudhomme, René-François
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Proses lyriques: De grève
    • Composer: Debussy, Claude
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • L'invitation au voyage
    • Composer: Duparc, Henri
    • Author: Baudelaire, Charles
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Les Nuits d'Été: L'île inconnue
    • Composer: Berlioz, Hector
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Fleur des blés
    • Composer: Debussy, Claude
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Manteau de fleurs
    • Composer: Ravel, Maurice
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Crépuscule
    • Composer: Massenet, Jules
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Les Nuits d'Été: Le spectre de la rose
    • Composer: Berlioz, Hector
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Fleur jetée; Op. 39, no. 2
    • Composer: Fauré, Gabriel
    • Author: Silvestre, Armand
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Acis and Galatea: Would you gain the tender creature
    • Composer: Handel, George Frideric
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • There's not a swain of the plain
    • Composer: Purcell, Henry
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • The Faithless Shepherdess
    • Composer: Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Jimmie's got a goil
    • Composer: Blitzstein, Marc
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • In the Silence of the Secret Night; Op. 4, no. 3
    • Composer: Rachmaninoff, Sergei
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • My lovely Celia
    • Composer: Monro, George
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Morning
    • Composer: Speaks, Oley
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Duna
    • Composer: McGill, Josephine
    • Author: Fickthall, Margorie
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • The Green Hills of Ireland
    • Composer: Del Riego, Teresa
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • Open My Eyes to Beauty
    • Composer: Klemm, Gustav
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George
  • A City Called Heaven
    • Composer: Unknown: African-American
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George

    Notes: Encore

  • Roll, Jordan, Roll
    • Composer: Unknown: African-American
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Posell, George

    Notes: Encore

• 
  02-07-1993

  Rackham Auditorium
  • On Wenlock Edge
    • Composer: Vaughan Williams, Ralph
    • Violin: Jennings, Andrew
    • Violin: Shipps, Stephen
    • Viola: Schotten, Yizhak
    • Cello: Jelinek, Jerome
    • Tenor: Shirley, George
    • Piano: Nel, Anton
• 
  10-27-2008

  Stamps Auditorium
  • L'Histoire du soldat
    • Composer: Stravinsky, Igor
    • Author: Ramuz, Charles-Ferdinand
    • Translator: Harnick, Sheldon
    • Chamber Ensemble: Michigan Chamber Players
    • Violin: Shipps, Stephen
    • Bassoon: Lyman, Jeffrey
    • Clarinet: Jackson, Sandra
    • Double Bass: Gannett, Diana
    • Narrator: Whiting, Steven
    • Percussion: Gramley, Joseph
    • Speaker: Shirley, George
    • Speaker: Hartwell, Robert
    • Trombone: Jackson, David
    • Trumpet: Campbell, William
• 
  11-02-2010

  Rackham Auditorium
  • A Portrait of Vanzetti
    • Composer: Reynolds, Roger
    • Conductor: Lees, Christopher
    • Clarinet: Burrow, Chad
    • Flute: Porter, Amy
    • Flute: Morris, Seth Allyn
    • French Horn: Unsworth, Adam
    • French Horn: Mickens, Stacie
    • Narrator: Shirley, George
    • Percussion: Gramley, Joseph
    • Percussion: Kocher, Cary
    • Percussion: Livingston, Samuel
    • Trombone: Jackson, David
    • Trumpet: Albrecht, Christopher
• 
  01-21-2013

  Hill Auditorium
  • On the Importance of Jazz
    • Creator: Martin Luther King
    • Vocals: Shirley, George
  • Lift Every Voice and Sing!
    • Creator: Unknown: Traditional
    • Chamber Ensemble: D-3 Trio
    • Conductor: Rogers, Eugene
    • Choir: University of Michigan MLK Day Choir
    • Vocals: Shirley, George
  • I Have A Dream
    • Composer: Williams, Mary Lou
    • Chamber Ensemble: D-3 Trio
    • Conductor: Rogers, Eugene
    • Choir: University of Michigan MLK Day Choir
    • Saxophone: Grady, Stephen
    • Vocals: Shirley, George