Event

Voices of a New World: Songs set to the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

Friday, March 9, 2018 • 7:00 pm

Augustana's Dr. Robert Elfline, piano, and guest artists will present "Voices of a New World: Songs set to the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman," a recital of modern American art song.

Guests will include Dr. Jamie-Rose Guarrine, soprano; Seth Keeton, bass-baritone; and Karl Knapp, cello.

They will present these two unique foundational voices in works by composers Lee Hoiby, Lori Laitman, André Previn and Ned Rorem.

The last two works on the program were commissioned especially for this event and will receive their world premieres this Friday: Daron Hagen's "On the Beach at Night" and Scott Gendel's "To Keep the Dark Away.'

Program

I Was There (1993) Beginning My Studies I Was There A Clear Midnight O Captain! My Captain! Joy, Shipmate, Joy!		Lee Hoiby (1926-2011)
Three Dickinson Songs (1999) As imperceptibly as Grief Will There Really be a Morning? Good Morning - Midnight		André Previn (b. 1929)
Three Calamus Poems (1982) Of Him I Love Day and Night I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing To a Common Prostitute		Ned Rorem (b. 1923)
Intermission
One Bee and a Revelry (2003) The Butterfly upon Hope is a Strange Invention To Make a Prairie		Lori Laitman (b. 1955)
On the Beach at Night (2017)		Daron Hagen (b. 1961)
To Keep the Dark Away (2017) Letter to the World The Saddest Noise In Vain Accustomed to the Dark The Crickets Sang I Sing to Use the Waiting		Scott Gendel (b. 1977)