Lafayette: A Musical Depiction by David and Ginger Hildebrand

This evening’s concert illustrates how music of the colonial, Revolutionary, and federal periods served to express the varied thoughts, fears, and hopes of Americans within the current musical styles. Based on both manuscript and published source materials David and Ginger Hildebrand have created a program of music from the Old and New Worlds, imbued with American fervor, pride, and growing appreciation of France. Arranged from period sources, these are pieces composed to mark important events, songs enjoyed by citizens, officers and soldiers alike, dance tunes of the period, military ballads, and airs and instrumental works heard at impromptu theatrical presentations and concerts during Lafayette's several visits to America.

This program is part of our Bicentennial celebration of the Marquis de Lafayette's farewell tour.

David and Ginger Hildebrand

David and Ginger specialize in researching, recording, and performing early American music. Since 1980 they have presented concerts and educational programs throughout the country for museums, historical societies, public schools, and universities. Mount Vernon, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art and Colonial Williamsburg, as well as the Society of the Cincinnati are among their many past sponsors. In addition to family and adult programs David and Ginger frequently appear at primary schools and offer workshops for teachers to aid in the teaching of American history through music. In 1999, together with dance historians Kate van Winkle Keller and Robert Keller, the Hildebrands founded The Colonial Music Institute (www.colonialmusic.org).

THE PROGRAM

Spirit of France/ A Select Collection of … Country Dances (1808)/

Lafayette Forever J. Griffiths Collection of Newest Cotillions (1794)

Arise! Your Voices Raise/ words: Francis Hopkinson, Temple of Minerva (1781)

Ode, on the Arrival of also, Connecticut Gazette 12 December, 1783

Washington . . . tune: “He Comes, the Hero Comes” Henry Carey (1734)

Irishman’s Epistle to the Officers words: Virginia Gazette July 12, 1775

and Troops at Boston tune: “Lilliburlero,” Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719)

Liberty-Tree. A New Song words: Thomas Paine, Maryland Gazette (Baltimore)

15 August 1775; tune: “The Gods of the Greeks”

M. Lafayette/Successful Campaign Griffiths MS (1788)/Cabot MS (1784)

Don't be Weary, Traveler Slave Songs of the United States (1867)

Genl. La Fayette’s Quickstep … arranged for the Piano Forte by C. Meineke (1824)

The Dance, A Ballad to the tune Pennsylvania Packet, 27 November 1781

of "Yankey Doodle"

Sweet Richard G. Bush MS (1779)

The President's March/ Philip Phile (c.1789)/

Hail, Columbia! words: Joseph Hopkinson (1798)

Rights of Women words: "A Woman"(1795)

tune: “God Save the King” (1745)

Should Days of Triumph words: anon., National Intelligencer (1825)

tune: Auld Lang Syne, G. Thompson (1799)

To Anacreon in Heaven/Adams & Liberty/ R. Tomlinson/J.S. Smith (c.1779)/

Washington's Favorite the Brave Lafayette/ words: Thomas Paine, AM (1798)/

Brave Soldier of Fame anon. (1824)/Capt. R. Spence (1824

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