Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
IV: Evidence of Things Not Seen
MONDAY, MAY 23, 2022 7:30 PM
Digital Release: Monday, JUNE 20, 2022
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM IT’S ORIGINAL DATE.
First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, 119 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Ned Rorem’s magnum opus explores the entire breadth of life in this evening- length song cycle. Evidence of Things Not Seen captures everything that makes up the human experience in song.
Pre-concert lecture at 7:00PM by Nick DiBerardino (Curtis Institute)
Ned Rorem: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
Kristin Gornstein, mezzo soprano,
Daniel McGrew, tenor
Mario Diaz-Moresco, baritone
Spencer Myer, Ryan McCullough, piano
VI: Fin-du-Siècle
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.
V: Testaments
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.
III: Mortality Mansions
Friday, December 3, 2021 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, December 20, 2021
Two titans of American vocal music, Tom Cipullo and Herschel Garfein, explore the final stages of life through some of their most ambitious and poignant works.
II: Remembering
Friday, November 5, 2021 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, November 22, 2021
Two monumental British song cycles explore the fleeting wonder of youth. Finzi’s A Young Man’s Exhortation is filled with the tenderness of first love, while Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel looks back at youth with bittersweet wisdom.
I: Mörike Liederbuch
Friday, October 1, 2021 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, October 18, 2021
Hugo Wolf made his genius known to the world with his first major work, the Mörike Songbook. Composed at age 28, these songs are teeming with youthful energy, passionate drama, and slapstick humor.