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VOICES A pop-up festival of 20th/21st Music for the singing voice

VOICES: GORGEOUS NOTHINGS
Susan Narucki, soprano, and Donald Berman, piano

with guest instrumentalists Alexander Ishov, flutist and Robert Zelickman, clarinet.

gorgeous nothings/las preciosas insignificancias

Longtime collaborators soprano Susan Narucki, soprano and pianist Donald Berman present the second concert in the VOICES series on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3 p.m. 

The program features one of Mexico's most distinctive composers, Georgina Derbez who has written a remarkable group of songs to late poems of Emily Dickinson (Dickinson's "Envelope Poems") which have been translated into Spanish by the eminent Dickinson scholar Juan Carlos Calvillo. In Derbez' hands, the transcendent poetry is transformed into music that is by turns, ecstatic and intimate.  

In addition, a beautifully crafted work for solo piano by post-minimalist Eve Beglarian and three songs of 20th century Dutch composer Henriette Bosmans complete the program.   

PROGRAM:

Georgina Derbez     L'alphabet  (2023)   Poem by Albert Giraud

Henriette Bosmans 

                  Dit Island

                  In den Regen

                  Teken den hemel in het zand der zee

Eve Beglarian            as syllable from sound  (2023)

Georgina Derbez      Dickinson Songs  (2023-24)               

                 Las ruedas de las aves (A821)

                 Hay mucha quietude (A822)*

                 Cuando su razón  (A 108)*

                                 Un dolor es mas claro  (A 109)* 

*world premiere