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2022-07-04 06:27:07
Added depth: Julien Van Mellaerts & James Baillieu mix Die schöne Müllerin with the poems not set by Schubert, read by Christopher Purves, to remarkable effect
[…] Journey, and on Sunday 3 July 2022, mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and pianist Kunal Lahiry performed Schwanengesang in the original German with songs from Errollyn Wallen's new commission, The Lake interpolated throughout.On Saturday 2 July 2022, we caught baritone Julien Van Mellaerts (co-curator of the Opera in Song series) and pianist James Baillieu perform Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin (in German) with baritone Christopher Purves reading those poems from Wilhelm Müller's original poetic cycle that Schubert did not set, using Bryan Benner's English translation. This meant that we got Müller's prologue and epilogue, along with three poems from the main cycle that Schubert omitted but which add depth to the story.Purves proved to have a lovely speaking voice, with the poetry beautifully and affectingly read, the prologue was particularly moving and the three extra poems, coming after the sixth song, Der Neugierige, the fifteenth, Eifersucht und Stolz and the seventeenth, Die böse Farbe, did not add anything to the bald […]
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2018-02-05 12:30:09
Here's How You Get Millennials To The Symphony
You hire them as musicians. But for real, even though they're not in the marketing department, four Millennial musicians in Milwaukee "were willing to share their ideas on how to attract more people their age to performances. Their thoughts boil down to 'accessible repertoire,' to use McCullough-Benner's phrase, and friendly concert experiences."
2016-01-26 07:29:08
The spring recital season at the DePauw University School of Music begins on the first day of classes, Monday, February 1, with a 7:30 p.m. Faculty Select concert by the husband-and-wife duo of DePauw faculty tenor Thomas King and pianist Vicki King. Both champions of art song, the Kings will present a program featuring works by American composers Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber and Ned Rorem, as well as Indiana premieres by Libby Larsen and Al Benner.
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