Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to open its New Voices Festival on April 6, 2025. The evening will include Cecilia Livingston’s new cycle which explores family bonds, loss, and the power of Love. The program will also feature a celebration of the recent flourishing of songs by Black composers and encore performances of BASS commissions by Eve Beglarian and {…}
Brooklyn Arts Song Society is set to present “Histories VI: Goethe,” the final installment of its Histories series. The performance will be held on March 2, 2025, at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217. The concert explores Goethe’s timeless texts through the music of two of history’s greatest composers. The evening will see music by Franz Schubert and Hugo {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present Histories V: The Viennese School on Feb. 2, 2025. The concert will feature lieder by Mozart and Haydn and music by Beethoven. The soloists include sopranos Ashley Emerson and Maggie Finnegan, mezzo-soprano Katherine Lerner, and baritone Michael Kelly. They will be accompanied by pianists Mike Brofman, Brent Funderburk, and Joel Harder. There will be a {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present “Histories IV: Lachrimae.” The concert on Jan. 5, 2025, which will be held at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, will showcase music by John Dowland and Henry Purcell. Dowland represented the pinnacle of the troubadour tradition while Purcell is credited as being the greatest British composer of the Baroque period and {…}
On Dec. 1, the Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present “Histories III: Renaissance.” The evening will explore the revolutionary shift of the Seconda pratica with madrigals by Monteverdi and Gesualdo. The concert will also feature music by Hugo Wolf and Benjamin Britten which is set to Michelangelo’s poetry. This concert marks the first collaboration between BASS and the {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society has released its concert “Histories I: Das Wort” for streaming. The company’s performance can be seen for free access and features a program exploring the themes of Love, Sin, and Redemption through the music of Brahms, Dvořák, and Wolf. The concert features outstanding performances by vocalists Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Anna Laurenzo, Sidney Outlaw, and Brian James {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present “Histories II: Medieval.” The concert will be performed on Nov. 3, 2024, at Roulette in Downtown Brooklyn. “Histories II: Medieval” will showcase medieval-inspired works by modern composers including Samuel Barber’s “Hermit Songs,” Libby Larsen’s Irish and Gnostic texts (Donal Oge, The Magdalene), and Gilda Lyons’ “Songs of Lament and Praise.” The {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to open its 2024-25 season on Oct. 6 with Histories I: Das Wort. The evening will present three 19th-century masterpieces inspired by the Bible, exploring themes of love, sin, and redemption through the works of Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvořák, and Hugo Wolf. The works performed include Brahms’ “4 Ernste Gesänge,” Op. 121, Dvořák’s “Biblické {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society has revealed its 2024-25 season. Histories The first concert in the “Histories” series is “Das Wort,” which features music by Brahms, Dvorak, and Wolf. Soloists include Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Anna Laurenzo, Sidney Outlaw, and Brian James Myer. Pianists featured are Michael Brofman, Warren Jones, and Ryan McCullough. Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2024 “Medieval” showcases the music of {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present “Departures III.” The concert will conclude the New Voices Festival and showcase a meditation on loss and longing. The program will feature Lembit Beecher’s “Looking at Spring,” which reflects on the passage of time and aging, alongside two BASS-Commissioned World Premieres by Daniel Felsenfeld (Visiting San Francisco) and Jessica Meyer (with {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society will continue “The New Voices Festival: Departures” on May 2 at the First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn. The program will explore the meaning of loss. Katherine Balch’s “Estrangement” will be a reimagining of Schumann’s “Dichterliebe,” while Aida Shirazi’s “Language of Loss” will get its world premiere. The piece explores exile and features texts by poet {…}