Beginnings, Middles, and Ends VI: Fin-du-Siècle
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends explores the moments that make up our lives in song. Works that bookend careers, meditate on mortality, and follow the course of a lifetime to show us what it means to live a life.
Brahms’ final Four Serious Songs give a tragic finality to his life and work. Berg’s 7 Early Songs and Strauss’s 4 Last Songs, though written 40 years apart, look back on Late Romanticism with aching nostalgia. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00PM by Larry Wolff (New York University)
Alban Berg: 7 frühe Lieder
Johannes Brahms: 4 ernste Gesänge Op. 121
Richard Strauss: 4 letzte Lieder
Tami Petty, Laquita Mitchell, Soprano
Gregory Feldmann, baritone
Mike Brofman, Nana Shi, Miori Sugiyama, piano
Presented by Brooklyn Art Song Society.
Be sure to sign up for the other programs in the Beginnings, Middles, and Ends series:
May 23, 2022 (rescheduled date) - IV: Evidence of Things Not Seen
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