This coffee break delves into love as a many splendored thing and a source of inspiration for wonderful music. We begin with Roy Harris' Symphony No. 4 sense of the longing love of the one not here. We hear Harry Burleigh's maternal love for the Little Mother of Mine. Then we go way, way back to some secular, but not quite romantic, love songs of the 13th and 14th Centuries with composers Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut. Next we hear a mixture of 15th Century poetry of Christine de Pizan updated by musician Claire Gignac. We jump into the 16th Century with a Pierre Passereau piece then into the 17th Century with romantic to Reinhard Keiser's opera Croesus--"Love, what are you beginning?" We listen to a quick piece from Don Carlo Gesualdo then a dirty little ditty Matona mir cara by Orlando Lasso, which has been properly censored by the always proper Mr. Somers.

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