CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Christine Schäfer
Eric Schneider

Zankel Hall
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 7:30 PM

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)

This concert and the Pure Voice series are sponsored by the Jean & Jula Goldwurm Memorial Foundation in memory of Jula Goldwurm.

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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.