No tickets required for this FREE event hosted by the Rocky River Public Library
FEATURED ARTISTS
Elena Mullins Bailey, soprano
Debra Nagy, oboe and director
Shelby Yamin, violin
Rebecca Landell, cello
Mark Edwards, harpsichord
Wild Things
Presented by the Tune in River Series
Friday, November 21, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Rocky River Public Library
1600 Hampton Road, Rocky River, Ohio 44116
Inspired by animals and the natural world, Wild Things features delightful musical settings of Aesop’s Fables (in English, with soprano Elena Mullins Bailey) plus instrumental music depicting birds, cats, frogs, insects, and more by Heinrich Biber (his fabulous “Sonata Representativa”), François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and others.
Musical Program
Telemann: Suite from Don Quixotte
Ouverture
Le reveille de Quixotte
Son attaque des Moulins à vent
Le Galope de Roscinante – Celui d’Ane de Sanche
Le couché de Quixote
François Couperin: Rondement (en trio)
The Ant and the Grasshopper (from The White Cat)
Heinrich Biber: Sonata Representativa
The Hare & the Tortoise (from The White Cat)
Couperin: Le rossignol en amour
The Swallow and the Nightingale (from The White Cat)
John Walsh: Suite from Bird Fancyer’s Delight (1717), arr. Nagy
The Starling
The East India Nightingale
The Linnet
The Parrot
Georg Philipp Telemann: Napolitana
The Lion and the Rat (from The White Cat)
Telemann: Xantippe
Bernardo Pasquini: Toccata con lo Scherzo del Cucco
Thomas Arne: Where the bee sucks
The Tortoise and the Eagle (from The White Cat)