The art song is a cultivated form that emerged in the early 19th century, as composers began to set poetry to music in a more deliberate and expressive way to convey the emotional and psychological depth of the text.

Art song was born as an intimate genre, written to be performed in people's homes — music for a room, for a gathered circle of friends, for a voice close enough to hear every detail. It continues to be a vibrant and diverse genre, and this program lives in that tension — between the wild and the tended — tracing the art song from its Romantic roots to music written in our own time.

PROGRAM

Clara Schumann Selections from Sechs Lieder aus Jucunde, op. 23

Hugo Wolf Das verlassene Mägdlein

In dem Schatten meiner Locken

Die Spröde

Ich Hab in Penna

Arnold Schoenberg Galathea (1901)

Ghasel, op. 6

Selections from Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, op. 15

Lili Boulanger Selections from Clairières dans le ciel

Francis Poulenc Selections from Le Travail du Peintre

Charles Ives The Housatonic at Stockbridge

Aaron Copland There Came a Wind like a Bugle

Samuel Barber A Green Lowland of Pianos

John Frantzen Three Frost Songs

ADMISSION: $30