In Praise...
| Hours: | 3:30pm-5:30pm |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Music & Concerts |
explores narrative gestures from the 16th Century to present day through the lense of chamber music, revolving around two instruments: piano and voice.
Boston composer John McDonald’s Khayyam Quatrains is a setting of poetry by famed Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam.
Aaron Copland Award winning composer Allen Shearer’s November Gold makes its East Coast debut.
This song cycle draws its text from poetry by Amherst writer Robert Francis, the prodigy of Robert Frost.
The program also includes the Iberian Renaissance madrigal La Bomba, a seafaring story of a crew bailing out their sinking ship (in four part harmony), Schumann’s Bilder aus Osten (Pictures of the East) for piano four hands - inspired by Arabic poetry, and Brahm’s sublime Liebeslieder Waltzes - settings of Goethe and Hungarian poetry.
Free thanks to a Free for All Fund grant from the Boston Foundation.
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www.convergenceensemble.org/events/
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29 Lenox Street, Boston, MA, 02118 map
Phone: 508-380-5630
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