The Fulbright College department of music, The John Harrison Opera Foundation and St. Paul’s Friends of Music will present a concert of late German Romantic Vocal and Piano Music on Sunday afternoon, June 28 at 3:00 p.m. in the Parish House at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Pianists Aurélien Boccard and Christopher Lacy will assist singers Echo Sibley and Xavier Moore in selected songs of Brahms, Mahler and Berg. The program will close with Mr. Boccard performing the Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel by Brahms. A reception hosted by the Harrison Foundation will follow.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is located just off Dickson Street at 224 North East Avenue. Parking is available behind the church. For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-4701 or visit us on the web at music.uark.edu.
Program
I. Wir Wandelten
II. Muß es eine Trennung geben
III. Die Mainacht
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
(from the) Sieben Frühe Lieder
I. Nacht
II. Im Zimmer
III. Die Nachtigall
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Echo Sibley, Soprano
Aurélien Boccard, Pianist
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
I. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
II. Ging heut morgen übers Feld
III. Ich hab’ein glühend Messer
IV. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Xavier Moore, Baritone
Christopher Lacy, Pianist
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (1861)
Johannes Brahms
Aurélien Boccard, Pianist
