Song and Verse: The World is Not Enough

NEC: Burnes Hall | Directions

255 St. Botolph St.
Boston, MA
United States

Inaugurated in the fall of 2020, the Song and Verse recital series provides a platform for undergraduate singers at NEC to experience the unique and invigorating process of song preparation and performance—creating interpretations, building performance skills, and forging intellectual and musical connections with a wide literature.

Working closely with Vocal Arts faculty members, students will engage with rich traditions of song composition from around the globe.

Committed to diversity, our programs will feature both established and emerging composers and poets from across many cultures and traditions. This series creates new opportunities for students to participate with the singular type of storytelling unique to song. 

Christina Wright-Ivanova coached and serves as accompanist for tonight's program.

  1. QUANTUM OF SOLACE


    Amy Beach
    I send my heart up to thee
    The year’s at the spring


    Yoomin Kang, soprano


    Ernst von Dohnányi
    Grüsse zur Nacht, op. 16 no. 3

    Molly Knight, soprano


    Charles Ives
    Romanzo di Central Park
    Domenick Argento
    Rome
    Oskar Merikanto
    Beherzigung, op. 109 no. 1

    Sianna Monti, mezzo-soprano



    Richard Strauss
    Zueignung

    Edward Ferran, tenor

     

  2. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE


    Anton Rubenstein
    Du bist wie eine Blume

    Molly Knight, soprano


    Nikolai Medtner
    An die Türen will ich schleichen, op. 15 no. 2

    Jing Chen, soprano
     

  3. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH


    Ernest Chausson
    Chanson d’amour, op. 28 no. 2

    Edward Ferran, tenor


    Jake Heggie
    The Spring is Arisen: Ophelia’s Song  (from Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia)

    Yoomin Kang, soprano



    Richard Strauss
    Erstes Lied der Ophelia
    Hugo Wolf
    Verborgenheit  (from Mörike Lieder)

    Jing Chen, soprano

  4. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER


    Franz Schubert
    An Sylvia

    Edward Ferran, tenor


    R. P. Thomas
    Could my hair type  (from Hair Emergency!)

    Molly Knight, soprano



    Juliana Hall
    To Harriet Monroe (from Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay)

    Sianna Monti, mezzo-soprano

  5. TOMORROW NEVER DIES


    Ricky Ian Gordon
    In Time of Silver Rain

    Molly Knight, soprano


    Johannes Brahms
    Feldeinsamkeit

    Yoomin Kang, soprano


    Franz Schubert
    Frühlingsglaube

    Molly Knight, soprano



    Charles Ives
    Songs my mother taught me

    Yoomin Kang, soprano


    Antonín Dvořák
    Songs my mother taught me

    Sianna Monti, mezzo-soprano