Friday, June 3, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, June 20, 2022
An evening-length “cornucopia of song” from Daron Hagen, one of today’s most important American composers. A work at once epic and intimate- a landmark in 21st-century American art song.
Friday, May 6, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, May 23, 2022
This program of vocal chamber music includes the world premiere of Lembit Beecher’s After the Fires, based on interviews with his own family and their community. Also on the program, David Ludgwig’s epic cycle about North Carolina’s Bleeding Pines and works for strings and voice by Marcos Balter, Amy Beth Kirsten, Jessica Meyer, Jesse Montgomery and Jane Sheldon.
Friday, April 1, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, April 18
Eve Beglarian’s Closer to the Heart explores “a certain kind of female unhappiness” through the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and excerpts from her own mother’s journals. Reinaldo Moya’s new work on poetry by Ruben Dario explores our darkest emotions. Seering works by some of today’s best young composers round out this program.
March 4, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, March 21
Brahms’ final Four Serious Songs give a tragic finality to his life and work. Berg’s 7 Early Songs and Strauss’ 4 Last Song, though written 40 years apart, look back on Late Romanticism with aching nostalgia.
Friday, February 4, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, February 21
Britten’s Songs and Proverbs of William Blake ponders the infinite; Shostakovich’s 7 Romances by Aleksander Blok stares down mortality; Hugo Wolf’s Michelangelo-Lieder is the composer’s final testament before losing his mind.
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