LIEDERABEND
- Evening of German Song at Barnard College April
5
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March
15, 2000, New York, NY-- A Liederabend,
or evening of German song in the tradition
of the 19th-century drawing room, will be
presented on Wednesday, April 5, at 8:00
p.m. by vocal students from Barnard and
Columbia Colleges. The event, directed by
Jane McMahan, who teaches voice and vocal
repertoire at Barnard, will take place in
the elegant Sulzberger Parlor of Barnard
Hall, Broadway at 117th Street.
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Elizabeth
Rodgers, a noted solo pianist and accompanist who
is valued by American singers for her sensitive
interpretations of art song and lieder, will be
at the piano for the entire evening. Ilya Levtov,
a cellist in the joint Columbia-Juilliard program,
will join the group, as will David Goldfarb, a professor
in Barnard's Slavic Department, on trombone.
The
program explores a wide-ranging repertoire by Bach,
Mozart, Schubert, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann,
Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Schönberg,
and Weill. Ensemble numbers include Schubert's Erlkönig,
performed by a cast of four; Die Nacht, also by
Schubert, performed by a male quartet; Weill's Ballade:
vom ertrunkenenMädchen (...for a drowned maiden);
and Brahms' Zigeunerlied no.1.
Admission is free. Members of the audience are free
to come and go as the spirit moves them.
This
program is produced by Wendy Park, a Barnard music
student.
For more information, please contact the Barnard
Music Department, Jane McMahan, 212-854-9019.
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Associate Director of Public Affairs,
212-854-7907
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