Song and Verse: The World is Not Enough
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.
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, tenorFROM 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
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, sopranoDIAMONDS 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-sopranoTOMORROW 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