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The Hugo Wolf Project VI
BASS Concludes its Ambitious Survey of the Complete Published Songs of Hugo Wolf
The Hugo Wolf Project: Part VI
Friday, April 29, 2016 7:30PM South Oxford Space 138 S. Oxford Street Brooklyn, NY 11217 ($20/$10)
Kristina Bachrach, Laura Strickling, soprano; Michael Kelly, Steven Eddy, baritone; Julius Abrahams, Michael Brofman, Dimitri Dover, piano
Hugo Wolf: 6 Alte Weisen; 3 Gesange auf Ibsen; 4 Gedichte nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron 3 Gedichte von Robert Reinick; 6 Gedichte Scheffel, Mörike, Goethe and Kerner, 6 Lieder für eine Frauenstimme
On Friday, April 29, 2016 Brooklyn Art Song Society will hold the final concert in its survey of the complete songs of Hugo Wolf at the South Oxford Space in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The final concert features all the songs not found in the five songbooks (Morike, Eichendorff, Goethe Spanish, and Italian). Mostly earlier gems, the settings are from poets as diverse as Ibsen to Shakespeare to Goethe. Three acclaimed young singers, sopranos Kristina Bachrach and Laura Strickling, and baritone Michael Kelly are joined by pianists Julius Abrahams, Michael Brofman, and Dimitri Dover.
About Brooklyn Art Song Society The Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) will enter its sixth season of first-rate music making in the Fall of 2015, having earned a reputation as one of the preeminent organizations dedicated to the vast repertoire of poetry set to music. The New York Times called BASS "a company well worth watching" and Voce di Meche hailed, "as long as BASS is around we do not need to worry about the future of art song in the USA." BASS's innovative programming is epic in scope yet presented in intimate settings. Past highlights have included performances of the complete songs of Charles Ives and Henri Duparc, a festival of works from Franz Schubert's last year, a five-concert survey of the songs of Les Six, 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, Herschel Garfein, Daron Hagen, Libby Larsen, Lowell Liebermann, James Matheson, Scott Wheeler and Yehudi Wyner, and has commissioned works from up-an-coming composers Michael Djupstrom, Marie Incontrera and Michael Rose. In May 2015 BASS released its first album, New Voices, on Roven Records, which debuted at number one for new releases in Opera and Vocal on Amazon.com and in the top 10 on the Billboard Traditional Classical chart. The 2015-16 season includes Britannica, a six-concert celebration of British song from Dowland to Birtwistle, the conclusion of The Hugo Wolf Project, and the world-premiere of Andrew Staniland's Canadian Songbook (BASS/Casement Fund Song Series co-commission). On top of monthly concerts in Brooklyn, BASS will travel to Kansas City, MO and Portland, ME. In the summer BASS is the Fonzaley Resident Ensemble at the Sembrich in Bolton Landing, New York and the ensemble in residence at the Lake George Music Festival. This season features over 30 of the finest young interpreters of art song. For more information visit www.brooklynartsongsociety.org
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LocationSouth Oxford Space (View)
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
United States
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