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A PLAYLIST FOR EPIDEMIC, PLAGUE AND CONTAGION
(Dedicated to the Prince Prosperos of Fort Lauderdale)

André Caplet, “Conte fantastique,” after E.A. Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death” (the consequences of partying in time of plague)

Constant Lambert, “King Pest” from “Summer’s Last Will and Testament” (listen for grotesque references to “Watkin’s Ale”)

Simon Holt, “St. Vitus in the Kettle” (named for St. Vitus’ Dance, the medieval “dancing plague”)

George Frideric Handel, “Israel in Egypt” (Trinity Wall Street, bringing it Old Testament):

• Complete
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuKHelZyL4

• Water to blood
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuKHelZyL4&t=7m39s

• Frogs, pestilence of livestock, and boils
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuKHelZyL4&t=9m35s

• Flies, lice, and locusts
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuKHelZyL4&t=12m0s

• Hail and fire
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuKHelZyL4&t=14m24s

• Darkness
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuKHelZyL4&t=16m42s

• Smiting of the first born
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuKHelZyL4&t=19m33s

Franz Schmidt, “The Book with Seven Seals” (complete with musical evocation of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse)

César Cui, “A Feast in Time of Plague”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SqlrZ8lLrc

John Corigliano, Symphony No. 1 (to the memory of friends and colleagues lost to AIDS)
Movt I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrWOvPOSeiQ
Movt II. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHPxpAaR0c
Movt III. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UTbB49UsmE
Movt IV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj1JP3M5z7E

Daniel Catán, “Florencia in the Amazon” (inspired by works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, including “Love in the Time of Cholera”)

• Teaser for Houston Grand Opera production
  

• Complete
  

Guillaume Machaut, Medieval music from the time of plague and courtly love

Dies Irae (‘nuff said)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlr90NLDp-0