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Brooklyn Art Song Society to Open with ‘Circles I: Clara, Robert & Johannes’

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The Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to open its 14th season on Oct. 6, 2023 with “Circles I: Clara, Robert, and Johannes.” The concert is the first installment of a six-part series exploring the musical and social connections between composers throughout music history. This first installment will center on the complex relationship between Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Robert {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society Unveils 2023-24 Season

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The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its 2023-24 season. First up is “Circles I: Clara, Robert, and Johannes” which features works by Robert Schumman, Brahms, and Clara Schumann. Performers include Elisabeth Marshall, Katherine Lerner, Gregory Feldmann, Brian Mextorf, Micchael Brofman, and Joel Harder. Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2023 “The Wagnerians” will feature music by Chausson, Duparc, Wagner, and Wolf as {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society to Present ‘The Dichter Project: Joseph Van Eichendorff’

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On March 18, 2023, Brooklyn Art Song Society will present “The Dichter Project: Joseph Von Eichendorff.” Held at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, the program features “Liederkreis Op. 39” by Robert Schumann, as well as selections from Hugo Wolf’s “Eichendorff-Lieder.” The artists are soprano Elisabeth Marshall, baritone Brandon Bell, bass-baritone William Socolof, and pianist Michael Brofman. This program is featured {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society Announces 2022-23 Season

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The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its 2022-23 season. The main theme of the season will be “The World at War” and it will kick off with “In Memoriam I.” The showcase will include music by Berg, Ives, Poulenc, Ravel, and Granados. Singers include Amy Owens, Kate Maroney, Joshua Conyers, Mario Diaz-Moresco, and pianists Michael Brofman and Spencer Myer. {…}

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Alexandra Nowakowski, Michael Kelly, Brian Mextorf Headline Brooklyn Art Song Society’s ‘Testaments’

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(Credit: John Matthew Myers Photography) On February 4, 2022 at 7:30 p.m., the Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) “Testaments” at the First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn. The showcase, the fifth one in the company’s “Beginnings, Middles, and Ends” series, will feature the Songs and Proverbs of William Blake op. 74; 7 romances of Aleksander Blok op. 12; and the Testament {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society Postpones Upcoming Concert due to COVID-19

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The Brooklyn Art Song Society has postponed its upcoming performance due to COVID-19. The organization noted that “it’s with great sadness that we must announce the postponement of ‘Beginnings, Middles, and Ends IV: Evidence of Things Not Seen,’ originally scheduled for this Friday, Jan. 7. Since the beginning of the pandemic it has been BASS’s guiding principle to continue to {…}

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Laquita Mitchell, Jorell Williams, Blythe Gaissert Headline Brooklyn Art Song Society’s 2021-22 Season

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The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its 2021-22 season. The season kicks off with a performance of selections from Wolf’s “Mörike Liederbuch.” The showcase will feature Amy Owens, Sarah Nelson Craft, Daniel McGrew, and Tyler Duncan. Spencer Myer and Erika Switzer will perform at the piano. Performance Date: Oct. 1, 2021 Streaming Date: Oct. 18, 2021 “Remembering” will feature {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society to Present 4 World Premieres in ‘New Voices Festival: Past/Present/Future’

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On May 15, 2021, Brooklyn Art Song Society will present the second installment of their “New Voices Festival: Past/Present/ Future.” Each work in the program will adapt a text from the past for a more recent perspective, featuring works by Anna Akhmatova, Charles Baudelaire, Aleksander Blok, Osip Mandelstam George Eliot, Christina Rosetti, and Walt Whitman. The program will include recent {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society to Launch ‘New Voices Festival: Past/Present/Future’ This April

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On April 9, 2021, Brooklyn Art Song Society will present the first program in its “New Voices Festival: Past/Present/Future,” featuring world premieres by composers Katherine Balch and Brad and Doug Balliett. First will be the Balliett Brothers, with a re-setting of Schubert’s “Schwanengesang” that draws upon their idiosyncratic styles of composition and performance. Katherine Balch’s “estrangement” will view Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” {…}