In Praise...
When:
Sunday, May 06, 2018 3:30p -
5:30p
Sunday, May 06, 2018 3:30p -
5:30p
Where:
The Church of Saint Augustine and Saint Martin
31 Lenox Street
Roxbury, MA 02118
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
http://www.convergenceensemble.org/events/
The program explores narrative gestures from the 16th Century to present day through the lense of chamber music, revolving around two instruments: piano and voice. Boston composer John McDonald’s Khayyam Quatrains is a setting of poetry by famed Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam. Aaron Copland Award winning composer Allen Shearer’s November Gold makes its East Coast debut. This song cycle draws its text from poetry by Amherst writer Robert Francis, the prodigy of Robert Frost. The program also includes the Iberian Renaissance madrigal La Bomba, a seafaring story of a crew bailing out their sinking ship (in four part harmony), Schumann’s Bilder aus Osten (Pictures of the East) for piano four hands - inspired by Arabic poetry, and Brahm’s sublime Liebeslieder Waltzes - settings of Goethe and Hungarian poetry.
La Bomba - Mateo Flecha el Viejo
Khayyam Quatrains - John McDonald
Bilder aus Osten (Pictures from the East) - Schumann
November Gold (5 Selections) - Allen Shearer
Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 52 -Brahms
soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper
mezzo soprano Elizabeth Eschen
Tenor Corey Dalton Hart
baritone Will Prapestis
mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunado
pianists Rachel Goodwin and Eileen Hutchins
Free thanks to a Free for All Fund grant from the Boston Foundation.
