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Event
Home III: Chopin and Szymanowski
What: Home III: Chopin and Szymanowski
When: Friday, January 3rd, 2020 7:30PM
Where: Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Who: Amy Owens, Soprano; Sarah Nelson Craft, mezzo soprano; Michael Brofman, Spencer Myer, Miori Sugiyama, piano
Program: Frédéric Chopin: Selected Mazurkas and Songs
Karol Szymanowski: Métopes, Op. 29, Songs of a Fairy Tale Princess, Op. 31
Tickets: $15/$25 available at brooklynartsongsociety.org
On Friday, January BASS presents a program of two iconic polish composers, Frederic Chopin and Karol Szymanowski, pairing their songs with solo piano works. Chopins Mazurkas and songs took traditional Polish forms and imbued them with kaleidoscopic emotional breadth. Szymanowski brought Polish music into the 20th century with bold harmonies influenced by Debussy and Stravinsky, qualities on full display in two of his most virtuosic works, Métopes for solo piano and Songs of a Fairy Tale Princess for coloratura soprano. Soprano Amy Owens makes her BASS debut, joined by soprano Laura Strickling, and pianists Mike Brofman, Spencer Myer, and Miori Sugiyama. Musicologist Marilyn McCoy (Columbia University) gives a pre-concert lecture at 7:00PM
About Home: For its 10th season, Brooklyn Art Song Society explores national identity through the prism of song, presenting works by more than a dozen composers that display what it means to be from a place and part of a people.
About BASS: The Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) will enter its 10th season of first-rate music making in the Fall of 2019, having earned a reputation as one of the preeminent organizations dedicated to the vast repertoire of poetry set to music. Its mission is to preserve art songs direct expressiveness and emotional honesty for todays audience and future generations.
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. New York Classical Review called BASS superb, and Opera News wrote, Brooklyn Art Song Society keeps the intimate recital alive with innovative programming. The New Yorker praised BASS as invaluable and uncompromisingly dedicated to continuing the traditions of classical art song, both old and new.
BASSs innovative and ambitious programming has reached thousands of audience members- lifelong classical music and first-time concert-goers alike. Past programs include performances of the complete songs of Charles Ives and Hugo Wolf, and multi-concert surveys of the art song canon including Britannica, Wien, and La France. Committed to keeping art song relevant in our time BASS has collaborated closely with and premiered works by important living composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Tom Cipullo, Michael Djupstrom, Daniel Felsenfeld, Herschel Garfein, Daron Hagen, Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, Lowell Liebermann, David Ludwig, James Matheson, Harold Meltzer, Kurt Rohde, Glen Roven, Andrew Staniland, and Scott Wheeler, In May 2015, BASS released its first album, New Voices on Roven Records, which debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard Traditional Classical charts.
Highlights from the 10th anniversary season include Home, a five-concert celebration of what it means to be from a place and of a people, a continuation of The Dichter Project featuring iconic settings of poetry by Friedrich Rückert, and the world-premiere of Daron Hagens The Art of Song, a joint project with Philadelphias LyricFest. In addition to monthly concerts in Brooklyn, BASS has traveled to Philadelphia, Kansas City, Portland, ME, San Francisco, and Seattle and has held residencies at University of Notre Dame, University of California-Davis, University of Chicago, and Ithaca College. Brooklyn Art Song Society is proud to make the Brooklyn Historical Society its primary venue and present a free annual concert at the Brooklyn Public Library. BASS also presents monthly outreach for seniors lacking cultural access through Heights and Hills Senior Services. BASSs artist roster features over 40 of the finest young interpreters of art song. For more information visit www.brooklynartsongsociety.org.
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LocationThe Brooklyn Historical Society (View)
128 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
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