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Songs by Rachmaninoff, Mozart & Debussy Piano Music CANCELED

Songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

I Wait for Thee op. 14 no. 1
Do Not Grieve op. 14 no. 8
Spring Waters op. 14 no. 11

Twilight op. 21 no. 3
Lilacs op. 21 no. 5
Fragment from A. Musset op. 21 no. 6

Dora Barnes, soprano
Abigail Habegger, piano

“Allegro moderato” from Sonata K. 330, C Major by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)

from Images, Book 1 by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

-Reflets dans l’eau (“Reflections in the Water”)

-Hommage à Rameau (“Homage to Rameau”)

-Mouvement (“Movement”)

Emiko Hori, piano

Music for Mezzo-Soprano & String Ensemble

French opera favorites, arr. Bryan Fiehler arranged for voice and string quartet (b. 1981)

“Habanera” from Carmen Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
“Vois sous l’archet frémissant” Jacques Offenbach from Les Contes d’Hoffmann (1819–1880)
“Seguedille” from Carmen Georges Bizet
“Mon cœur s’ouvre á ta voix” Camille Saint-Saëns from Samson et Dalila (1835–1921)
“Je suis Lazuli” from l’Étoile Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)

Katie Stevenson, mezzo-soprano
Candice Chin, violin
Robert Redman (guest artist), violin
Ryan May (guest artist), viola
Terry Cook, cello

Selections from String Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven Op. 59, No. 2 (1770–1827)

Allegro

Molto Adagio

Finale Presto

Candice Chin, violin
Robert Redman (guest artist), violin
Ryan May (guest artist), viola
Terry Cook, cello

3 Old English Folk Songs arr. Rebecca Clarke arranged for voice & violin (1886–1979)

It was a lover and his lass
Phillis on the new made hay
The tailor and his mouse

Katie Stevenson, mezzo-soprano
Candice Chin, violin

The Inspiring Words of Emily Dickinson

Born in December of 1830, Emily Dickinson was an incredibly prolific and influential American poet. She wrote close to 1800 poems and yet, fewer than a dozen were published in her lifetime and those were heavily edited in order to fit the current sensibilities of society. The topics of many of her poems concerned death and immortality.

For more information about Emily Dickinson:
Wikipedia, Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Poetry Foundation

Tonight’s Program

Settings by John Duke (1899-1984)

Good morning, Midnight
Heart! We will forget him!
Let down the bars, Oh Death
An awful tempest mashed the air
Nobody knows this little Rose
Bee! I’m expecting you!

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Settings by Craig Urquhart

It’s All I Have to Bring Today
On This Wondrous Sea

Settings by Lori Laitman

“The Butterfly upon” from One Bee and Revery
“Hope is a Strange Invention” from One Bee and Revery
“To Make A Prairie” from One Bee and Revery

Good Morning Midnight
Wider than the Sky

Clarice Alfonso, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

**from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson by Aaron Copland (1900-1990)**

Why do they shut me out of heaven?
Heart, we will forget him
Dear March, come in!
When they come back
I felt a funeral in my brain
Going to heaven!
I’ve heard an organ talk sometimes

Lin Chen, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Settings by Ricky Ian Gordan (b. 1956)

Too Few the Mornings Be
If All the Griefs I Am to Have
Bee! I’m Expecting You
I’m Nobody! Who are You?
Will There Really be a Morning?

Beth Ann Bonnecroy, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Songs and Piano solos by Contemporary Korean composers

ki-jung jun, soprano — Ki-Jung Jun, Korean Soprano sings music by contemporary Korean composers

Psalm 62 by Yeojeong Yoon B (b. 1978)

Greeting by Hakjoon Yoon (b. 1974)

Singing Cosmos by Heungyul Lee (1909-1980)

As if Spring Comes Across the River by Keungsoo Lim ( b. 1950)

Longing for Mount Keumkang by Youngsup Choi (b. 1929)

In the Flowing Cloud by Heungyul Lee (1909-1980)

Ki-Jung Jun, soprano

Fantasy from Arirang by Youngmin Choi (1984- )

3B Variations on the theme of “For the beauty of the Earth” by C. Kocher by Young Jo Lee (1943- )

From “Five Korean Dance Suite “ by Young Jo Lee (1943- )
Dance of Love

Hannah Cho, piano

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Captive Brilliance CANCELED

The life and works of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)

Fanny Hensel in 1842
Oil on canvas painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800-1882) Currently on display at the Jewish Museum, NYC

Despite showing great promise as a performer and composer at a young age, Fanny Mendelssohn was discouraged from actively pursuing her passion by her family. Somehow, she managed to compose nearly 500 works anyway and some of these were published with the help of her brother, Felix (in his name).

Our program will feature a variety of singers and instrumentalists performing both her work and those she influenced while an LMC historian provides some insight into the life of this brilliant yet underappreciated composer who died at the tragically young age of 41.

“It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.” Fanny Hensel

Felix Mendelssoh in 1847 Oil on canvas by Wilhelm Hensel (1794-1861) Collection: Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf

“From my knowledge of Fanny I should say that she has neither inclination nor vocation for authorship. She is too much all that a woman ought to be for this. She regulates her house, and neither thinks of the public nor of the musical world, nor even of music at all, until her first duties are fulfilled. Publishing would only disturb her in these, and I cannot say that I approve of it.” Felix Mendelssohn(1809-1847).

“Music will perhaps become his(Felix’s) profession, but for you it can and must only be an ornament, never the root of your being and doing.” Abraham Mendelssohn (1776-1835) to his 14-year-old daughter Fanny