SONGS OF THE EARTH
For 15 years, our season has begun with the Collaborative Works Festival - an annual celebration of art song performance explored through one topic, theme, or idea. Over several concerts, this theme is explored by some of the most exciting interpreters of art song.
This year’s festival programs chart a progression: from communion with nature, to contemplation of its power, to a reckoning with our impact upon it. These concerts are offered as an invitation to listen closely, to notice what has changed, and to consider what kind of relationship with the natural world we hope to leave behind.
September 23, 7:30pm
Ganz Hall | Roosevelt University
The Secret Garden, our first Festival concert spans nearly four centuries of music and poetry to explore humanity's relationship with the flora and fauna have inspired writers and poets across cultures throughout history. Many, like the German and English Romantics such as Joseph von Eichendorff, looked to nature to unlock the mysteries of the inner soul, and as a necessary escape from the increasingly industrialized, chaotic, polluted urban world. The program features works by composers including Schubert, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Margaret Bonds, and Harry Burleigh.
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Rachel Blaustein
soprano
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Alexis Peart
mezzo
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Nicholas Phan
tenor
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Evan Bravos
baritone
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Michael Banwarth
piano
Program Includes Songs by
Franz Schubert
Johannes Brahms
Sergei Rachmaninov
Margaret Bonds
Harry Burleigh
Collaborative Works Festival
September 23 - 26
Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University
Curated by Nicholas Phan | Featuring a distinguished roster of nearly a dozen Chicago-based artists.