Jay Carter countertenor

Highlights from the performance of Handel's Jephtha with Ars Lyrica Houston, and Jay Carter as Hamor.

Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.

Zilkha Hall / Hobby Center For The Performing Arts

Act I

Recitative: Happy this embassy

Aria: Dull delay, in piercing anguish

23:22 –26:51

Duet: These labours past, how happy we

30:26 –36:43

Act II

Recitative: Glad tidings of great joy

Aria: Up the dreadful steep ascending
56:25 –1:01:56

Recitative: If such thy cruel purpose

Aria: On me let blind mistaken zeal

1:42:55 –1:47:16

Ars Lyrica Houston

Matthew Dirst, conductor

Moores School of Music Concert Chorale

Dr. Betsy Cook Weber, chorale director

Dominique McCormick, soprano

Sofia Selowsky, mezzo soprano

Jay Carter, countertenor

Timothy Jones, bass

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