What: Brooklyn Art Song Society Presents: Clara,
Robert, and Johannes Part II
Program: Clara Schumann:
Lieder op. Opp. 13 and 23; Clara and Robert Schumann: 12
Gedichte Op. 37; Robert Schumann:
Frauenlieben und –leben Op. 42
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Who: Laura Strickling,
soprano; Kate Maroney, mezzo soprano; David Williams, baritone; Michael
Brofman, Spencer Myer, Miori Sugiyama, piano;
When: Saturday, October 5, 2013 8PM
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Where: Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street,
Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York 11215
Cost: $20/$15/$10
Brooklyn Art Song Society is proud to announce the
second part of its five concert series Clara,
Robert, and Johannes. This concert
features the complete songs of Clara Schumann, songs co-written by both Clara
and Robert Schumann, and Robert Schumann’s iconic Frauenlieben und –leben
Op. 42. This concert marks the
return of several BASS favorites including 2008 New Orleans International Piano
Competition winner Spencer Myer, soprano Laura Strickling (recently praised for
“her powerful and expressive voice across
a large range,”). This will
be BASS’s first concert at the Old Stone House, a unique and intimate
historical venue in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
About Clara, Robert and Johannes:
Brooklyn Art Song Society is proud to
present Classical music’s greatest love triangle played out in song. Robert Schumann and Clara Weick, married in
defiance of their families’ wishes, had a legendary romance that tragically
ended with Robert’s mental breakdown.
Lifelong bachelor Johannes Brahms pined for the widowed Clara, but she
remained loyal to her deceased husband and Brahms did not dare betray his once
friend and mentor even from beyond the grave. This poignant tale of unrequited
love and bittersweet loss provides the context for five magnificent concerts of
Clara’s complete songs and the major song cycles of Robert and Johannes.
About Brooklyn Art Song Society:
Hailed by the New York
Times as “ambitious” and “a company well worth watching,” the Brooklyn Art Song Society
(BASS) will enter its fourth season of first-rate music making in the fall of
2013. Dedicated to the vast repertoire of poetry set to music, BASS presents
programs of epic scope yet intimate at the same time. Past highlights have
included performances of the complete songs of Charles Ives, Henri Duparc, a
festival of works from Franz Schubert’s last year and an ongoing project to
present the complete lieder of Hugo Wolf. Committed to keeping art song
relevant in our time BASS has collaborated closely with important living
composers such as Tom Cipullo, Libby Larsen, Lowell Liebermann, and Yehudi
Wyner, and has commissioned works from Brooklyn-based composers Marie
Incontrera and Michael Rose. The 2013-14
season will feature concerts in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston and South Bend,
Indiana of works by Johannes Brahms, Lowell Liebermann, Michael Rose, Clara and
Robert Schumann, and Hugo Wolf featuring some of the worlds finest young
singers including sopranos Martha Guth and Laura Strickling, mezzo soprano
Wallis Giunta, tenor Dominic Armstrong, baritones John Brancy and Michael
Kelly, pianists Spencer Myer and Erika Switzer, and many, many more. For more information visit:
www.brooklynartsongsociety.org.
