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Music by Samuel Barber
2010-2011 Season |
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:30 PM Philosophy Hall at Columbia University |
Lunchtime Concerts
Hermit Songs, Op. 29 With an pre-concert introduction by Susan Boynton, Columbia University Department of Music faculty member Miller's popular midday series returns! Discover great chamber works in an intimate, casual setting. This season the concerts spotlight four of the founding fathers of modern American music, with works for voice, strings, and piano. Based on poems by medieval Irish monks, Barber's Hermit Songs speak in a voice that is simultaneously modern and timeless. "They are small poems," Barber wrote in his preface to the published music, "thoughts or observations, some very short, and speak in starightforward, droll, and often suprisingly modern terms of the simple life these men led, close to nature, to animals, and to God." Sarah Wolfson, an acclaimed interpreter of modern American music, performs the cycle. Lunchtime Concerts are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. REMAINING LUNCHTIME CONCERTS: (FREE - No tickets are required.) Wednesday, September 15, 12:30PM Music by Samuel Barber Cello Sonata, Op. 6 - Adrian Daurov, cello Monday-Wednesday, October 18-20, 12:30PM Music by Aaron Copland 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson - Sarah Wolfson, soprano Quartet for Piano and Strings - Voxare String Quartet Old American Songs (selections) - Sarah Wolfson, soprano Monday-Wednesday, February 7-9, 12:30PM Music by Charles Ives String Quartet No. 1 - Voxare String Quartet Concord Sonata - Stephen Gosling, piano Selected Songs - Sarah Wolfson, soprano Monday-Wednesday, March 7-9, 12:30PM Music by Ives and Virgil Thomson Ives: String Quartet No. 2 - Voxare String Quartet Thomson: String Quartet No. 1 Thomson: String Quartet No. 2 Lunchtime Concerts are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. |
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