by Michael Barrett | Aug 3, 2017 | Song of the Day
Summer is usually the time when love has the greatest opportunity to bloom. The soft evenings, the lingering twilight, the wonderful cuisine—fresh produce of every kind—all add up to an awakening of the senses. The collection of German folk poetry Des Knaben...
by Miles Mykkanen | Jun 19, 2017 | Song of the Day
We begin our week with a horror story in the Black Forest. One of my favorite things about the study of poetry and music is opening my imagination to the world in which these magnificent compositions were birthed. Take a journey with me now to Stuttgart in the 1820s...
by Steven Blier | May 18, 2017 | Song of the Day
Since my upcoming Wolf Trap concert features four singers and two pianists, it seemed crazy not to open the program with the cornerstone work for those forces: Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes. Normally I shun the obvious, so I briefly considered delving into the...
by Justine Aronson | May 11, 2017 | Song of the Day
“Ich denke diess, und denke dass, ich sehne mich, als weiss nicht recht nach was: halb ist es Lust, halb ist es Klage” “I think about this and that, I feel a longing, but don’t know exactly what for: half is joy, half is pain.” Hugo Wolf...
by Theo Hoffman | Sep 15, 2016 | Song of the Day
One of the pieces of music that has haunted my mind (and by that I mean made my imagination run wild) since I was first exposed to it is Britten’s Songs and Proverbs of William Blake. Written in 1965 for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the piece serves as a meditation...
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