Événement

Vocal Chamber Music in Times of War and Peace

D'Anna Fortunato, Mezzo-soprano, featured artist
Linda Toote, Flute
Michelle La Course, Viola
Ina Zdorovetchi, Harp
Mana Tokuno, Piano

The concert will include:

- Earl Kim, Now and Then in 5 Movements for Voice, Flute, Viola and Harp
- Mohammed Fairouz, Refugee Blues (Boston Premiere) for Voice and Piano
- Benjamin Britten, 4 Songs for Voice and Piano
- Reynaldo Hahn, Romanesque Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp
- Claude Debussy, 3 songs including the haunting Nous n'avons plus de Maison, for Voice and Piano
- Maurice Ravel, 5 Greek Folksongs for Voice and Harp

"In this time of international strife, I felt that the most appropriate centerpiece of this concert should be the gripping chamber work- Earl Kim's Now and Then- written in response to his having flown as an American airman over Nagasaki right after the atomic bomb fell. Mr. Kim waited quite a few years to let this work rise within him, bringing the texts of Samuel Beckett and William Butler Yeats to full haunting impact. Other works on the program by Ravel and Poulenc will complement and contrast with this work, utilizing the beautiful sonorities of the chamber ensemble and piano." D'Anna Fortunato