Liederabend
NEC faculty members Tanya Blaich and Cameron Stowe present NEC graduate students from the departments of collaborative piano and voice in an evening of song.
The Liederabend—literally, "evening of song"—dates back to the 1800s, when musicians and lovers of music would gather at someone's home, and one or more singers and a pianist would perform the songs of composers of the day. In the field of classical music, these songs are referred to as "art songs," and the German art songs are called "Lieder." In Germany, the great age of song came in the 19th century. German and Austrian composers had written music for voice with keyboard before this time, but it was with the flowering of German literature in the Classical and Romantic eras that composers found high inspiration in great poetry, sparking the genre known as the "Lied."
The tradition of the art song composition continues today, with composers from all corners of the world setting poetry in many languages, scored for voice and piano. The NEC Liederabend series presents songs in a variety of languages—not only German—dating from the 19th century up to the present day.
Robert Schumann: Heine settings
Artists- Jungrok Oh, tenor
- Miles Fellenberg, piano
Hugo Wolf: Michelangelo Lieder
Artists- Zizhao Wang, bass-baritone
- Alice Chenyang Xu, piano
Claude Debussy: Fêtes galantes, book 1
Artists- Christine Oh, soprano
- Sora Jung, piano
Modest Mussorgsky: Selections from Songs and Dances of Death
Artists- Whitney Robinson, mezzo-soprano
- Jingsi Lu, piano
Charles Ives: Down East, The Side Show, Memories, At the River, The Circus Band
Artists- Jameson Wells, baritone
- Chelsea Whitaker, piano