Christine Schäfer
Eric Schneider

Zankel Hall (Seating Chart)
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 7:30 PM

This concert is part of the Great Singers II: Jula Goldwurm Pure Voice Series series.

Tickets from $44 - $52

Program

An unusually probing singer—with a pure and sensitive soprano voice—sings an unusual program. She alternates between two inimitable composers, each unique in his time, to English-language texts: Henry Purcell from the Baroque era and George Crumb from contemporary America. Both create special sound worlds, dependent on vivid musical reactions to words.

Program Details

Christine Schäfer, Soprano
Eric Schneider, Piano

PURCELL	"Music for a While"
PURCELL	"If Music Be the Food of Love"
PURCELL	"Ah! How Sweet it is to Love"
PURCELL	An Epithalamium
PURCELL	"Sweeter than Roses"
GEORGE CRUMB	"Night"
PURCELL	"From Rosy Bow'rs"
PURCELL	"Not all my Torments"
GEORGE CRUMB	"Let it be Forgotten"
PURCELL	"Crown the Altar"
GEORGE CRUMB	"Wind Elegy"
PURCELL	Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas
GEORGE CRUMB	Apparition (Elegiac Songs and Vocalises on texts from Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)