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San Francisco Chamber Music Society:
A Concert of Vocal Music with Stephanie Friedman (October 26, 1981) |
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| Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 94 min |
| Event Type: Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
The first concert of the 1981-82 season of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society featured a performance of 20th century art songs by mezzo-soprano Stephanie Friedman, accompanied by a variety of San Francisco Bay Area musicians. Featured works included Edward Lawton’s “Medieval Triptych” a musical setting of 13th century texts; four poems by James Joyce as set to music by David Del Tredici; and three “Madegascan Songs” by Maurice Ravel with texts by the poet Évariste Parny. After an intermission the concert continued with five songs by Béla Bartók, using romantic verse by his very young lover Klára Gombossy and her friend Wanda Gleiman; a lengthy setting of a poem by Georg Trakl by Paul Hindemith; and concludes with two settings for piano, of poems by Pablo Neruda, by the pioneering American woman composer Vivian Fine. This concert was recorded live on October 26, 1981, at the Fireman’s Fund Forum in San Francisco by Steve Wolfe. |
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| Musical Selections: |
Medieval Triptych: Worldes Blisse (3:28) ; Earth Tak’n of Earth (2:22) ; Of One That is so Fair and Bright (2:32), for voice and string trio [text by Anon. 13th cent.] (1945-49) / Edward Lawton -- Four Songs to Poems of James Joyce: Dove Song (4:45) ; She Weeps Over Rahoon (3:31) ; A Flower Given to My Daughter (2:40) ; Monotone (4:05), for voice and piano (1958-60) / David Del Tredici -- Chansons Madecasses (”Madegascan Songs”): Nahandove ; Aoua! ; Il Est Doux de se Choucher..., for voice, flute, cello, and piano [text by Évariste Parny] (1925-26) (13:27) / Maurice Ravel |
| Performers: |
Stephanie Friedman, mezzo-soprano (all)
Mayumi Ohira, violin (Medieval)
Susan Bates, viola (Medieval)
Jan Volkert, cello (Medieval ; Chansons)
Lois Brandwynne, piano (Four ; Chansons)
Isabelle Chapuis, flute (Chansons) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Art Songs |
| Subject: |
20th century classical; Art songs; Chamber music; Vocal music; Songs (Medium voice) with string ensemble; Songs (Medium voice) with piano; Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble |
| People: |
Lawton, Edward B.; Del Tredici, David; Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937; Parny, Évariste, 1753-1814 ; Friedman, Stephanie; Ohira, Mayumi; Bates, Susan; Volkert, Jan; Brandwynne, Lois; Chapuis, Isabelle; Starr, Isabelle Chapuis |
| Recording Date: |
10/26/1981 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
11/24/1981 |
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| Musical Selections: |
Öt Dal (”Five Songs”), Op. 15: Az én szerelmem (”My love”) [text by Klára Gombossy] (2:03) ; Nyár (”Summer”) [text by Klára Gombossy] (2:39) ; A Vágyak Éjjele (”Night of Desire”) [text by Wanda Gleiman] (4:58) ; Szines álomban (”In vivid dreams”) [text by Klára Gombossy] (2:37) ; Itt lent a völgyben (”In the valley”) [text by Klára Gombossy] (3:21), for voice and piano (1916) / Béla Bartók -- Die Junge Magd (”The Young Maid”), for voice, flute, clarinet, and string quartet [text by Georg Trakl] (1922) (19:45) / Paul Hindemith -- Two Neruda Poems: La Tortuga (”The Turtle”) (5:50) ; Oda al Piano (”Ode to the Piano”) (5:52), for voice and piano [texts by Pablo Neruda] (1971) / Vivian Fine |
| Performers: |
Stephanie Friedman, mezzo-soprano (all)
Lois Brandwynne, piano (Five ; Two)
Isabelle Chapuis, flute (Die)
Richard Dasher, clarinet (Die)
Mayumi Ohira, violin (Die)
Frankay Oleson, violin (Die)
Susan Bates, viola (Die)
Jan Volkert, cello (Die) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Art Songs |
| Subject: |
20th century classical; Art songs; Chamber music; Vocal music; Songs (Medium voice) with piano; Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble |
| People: |
Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945; Gombossy Klára; Gleiman, Wanda ; Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963; Trakl, Georg, 1887-1914; Fine, Vivian, 1913-; Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 ; Friedman, Stephanie; Brandwynne, Lois; Chapuis, Isabelle; Starr, Isabelle Chapuis; Dasher, Richard B., 1955- ; Ohira, Mayumi; Oleson, Frankay; Bates, Susan; Volkert, Jan |
| Recording Date: |
10/26/1981 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
11/24/1981 |
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