Do-ing Music Concert
July 23, 2004 7:30 PM
at the Northport Public
Library
The Northport Arts Coalition will celebrate its second anniversary of
Do-Ing Music on July 23rd with pianist/composer Leonard Lehrman
and soprano Helene Williams. Included in the program will be
beloved lieder(German art songs) by Brahms, Schubert and Mendelssohn,
as well as a world premier of "The Girl With the Sea in Her Hair" with
text by Long Island's poet laureate, George Wallace and composed by Mr.
Lehrman. Songs based on the texts of Shakespeare, Edna St
Vincent Millay and Emily Dickenson, among others, will also be featured.
Reception will follow the program. Tickets should be reserved by
contacting the Northport or East Northport Library at: 261-6930.
Program:
Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (On Wings of Song) by Heinrich
Heine & Felix Mendelssohn
Ballad of the Children by Heinrich Heine (tr. Emma Lazarus)
& William Hammond
Sommerabend (Summer Evening) - by Heinrich Heine & Johannes
Brahms
Song by Rupert Brooke & Marc Blitzstein (completed by
Leonard Lehrman)
Letter from T.R. to Kermit by J. Willard Roosevelt [written for
us]
the girl with sea in her hair by George Wallace & Leonard
Lehrman
Song of Long Island by George Wallace & Leonard Lehrman
[world premiere]
Not in a Silver Casket by Edna St. Vincent Millay & Leonard
Lehrman [world premiere]
Three Emily Dickinson Songs by Leonard Lehrman:
1) I Felt a Cleaving
2) I'm Nobody
3) Wild Nights
Night Song at Amalfi by Sara Teasdale & Adele Berk
Sigh No More, Ladies by William Shakespeare & Adele Berk
The Journey of Life by William Cullen Bryant & Leonard
Lehrman
INTERMISSION
Overture to [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's] REINEKE FUCHS by
Leonard Lehrman
3 Goethe Songs by Mira J. Spektor:
1) Über meines Liebchens Äugeln
2) So lasst mich scheinen
3) Der Musensohn
So lasst mich scheinen by Hugo Wolf
Der Musensohn by Franz Schubert
Die stille Stadt by Richard Dehmel & Alma Mahler
Befreit by Richard Dehmel & Richard Strauss
[encore: Yellow Cabs by Rosalie Calabrese & Leonard Lehrman
if she's able to be there, otherwise:
Gretchen am Spinnrade by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Franz
Schubert]
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