Event

SWOON

This latest genre-blending collaboration from The Colonials features soprano Charlotte Mundy, poet J. Mae Barizo, guest pianist David Kaplan, and a performance driven by the diverse music of women composers, including Clara Schumann, Hannah Lash, Augusta Read Thomas and Caroline Shaw. The centerpiece of the evening is a song cycle by Doug Balliett, featuring Barizo's text SWOON, intertwined with a performance of Robert Schumann's song cyle Frauenliebe und Leben. SWOON, commissioned for this event,re-imagines Adelbert Von Chamisso's antiquated 19th century text Frauenliebe und Leben as a post-feminist manifesto. Join us in what is sure to be an immersive and unprecedented literary and musical event.

The event will take place in and is being sponsored by Soho's Louis K. Meisel Gallery. The performance will be segmented by a wine tasting flight, curated by Rob Moose. Small plates and canapés will be served. Cheese offerings will be curated by Ligaya Mishan (writer of the New York Times column, Hungry City).

Program

Clara Schumann: Soirées Musicales, op. 6 Selections: Nocturno, Ballade, and Mazurka (Alexandria Le, piano)

Selections from The New Davidsbündler Dances: movements based on Schumann by Augusta Read Thomas, Caroline Shaw, and Hannah Lash (David Kaplan, piano)

Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42, freely arranged by Doug Balliett interleaved with D. Balliett: SWOON, cycle of songs on texts of J. Mae Barizo, written in response to Schumann's Op. 42 (The Colonials with Charlotte Mundy, soprano, and David Kaplan, piano)

Performers

Charlotte Mundy, Soprano
J. Mae Barizo, Poet
Elizabeth Derham, Violin
Kristina Giles, Viola
Paul Wiancko, Cello
Doug Balliett, Double Bass
Alexandria Le and David Kaplan, Piano