An exploration of poetic imagery, symbolist, surreal, and sensual, through the ears of five contemporary composers, in the company of Poulenc's iconic 1956 song cycle, Le travail du peintre. Additional works by Barbara Jazwinski, Louis Karchin, Friedrich Kern, Andrew MacDonald and Guy Sacre.
JEREMY HUW WILLIAMS, baritone
PAULA FAN, piano
Artists' bios here.
Reservations: 212-998-8750 or maison.francaise@nyu.edu
$20. General Admission
$10. Students with ID
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View the texts by clicking on the composers' names below, or access all texts here.
Francis Poulenc, Le travail du peintre (Paul Éluard)
1) Pablo Picasso
2) Marc Chagall
3) Georges Braque
4) Juan Gris
5) Paul Klee
6) Joan Miró
7) Jacques Villon
Louis Karchin, Two Songs
1) Echoes (Hart Crane)
2) Memory (Theodore Roethke)
Barbara Jazwinski, The Girl by the Ocean (Maria Jazwinski)
Guy Sacre, Clair-Obscur (Jean Cocteau) (U. S. premiere)
1) D'un fauteuil la main dolente
2) Des sentinelles sous les armes
3) Que ne suis-je un de cette egypte
4) Tu sembles parti mais tu restes
Friedrich Heinrich Kern, Five Lieder (Jörg Martin Hartmann)
1) Der Schlüsselmacher
2) Verschwommen
3) Etwas mehr
4) Blicke hinter den Vorhang
5) Im Malstrom
Andrew Paul MacDonald, Les Chats de Baudelaire (New York premiere)
1) Viens, mon beau chat
2) Les amoureux fervents
3) Dans ma cervelle se promène
4) De sa fourrure blonde et brune
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NYU sponsors: FAS Department of Music and La Maison Française.
This concert is made possible in part by The League of Composers/ISCM, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
