An enticing selection of art songs spans familiar and overlooked repertoire from myriad styles, all rooted in great literature with settings of Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, and Strauss’s opulent Four Last Songs with texts by Hermann Hesse. South African soprano Golda Schultz, who has starred at the Opéra National de Paris, Metropolitan Opera, and BBC Proms, brings this program to life with her “remarkable depth and dimension” and “distinctively thrilling radiance” (Financial Times).

Please join us for a Pre-Concert Talk at 4:30pm in Shriver Hall with JHU Writing Seminar's David Yezzi. Mr. Yezzi is a published poet, biographer, and librettist.
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PROGRAM:

George Crumb (1929-2022)

Apparition

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

“Es viel ein Reif”

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

“Sie liebten sich beide”

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

“Ihr bildnis”

Florence Price (1887-1953)

“Because”

Florence Price (1887-1953)

“Hold Fast to Dreams”

Florence Price (1887-1953)

“Adoration”

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Ophelia Lieder

Rita Strohl (1865-1941)

Selections from Dix poésies mises en musique

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Four Last Songs

Program subject to change without notice.