The Art of the Song

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Title

The Art of the Song

Description

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
-"Music for a While"
-"Cupid, the Slyest Rogue Alive"
-"I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly"
-"The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation"

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Italian Songs
-"La pastorella al prato"
-"Non t'accostar"
-"Guarda che bianca luna"
-"Da quel sembiante"
-"Mio ben ricordati"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
"Misera, dove son?... Ah! non son io che parlo" K.369

André Previn (1929-2019)
Four Songs on Poems by Toni Morrison
-"Mercy"
-"I Don't Need No Man"
-"In this Soft Place"
-I am as You See"
with Carter Brey, cello

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Ariettes Oubliées
-"C'est l'extase"
-"Il pleure dans mon cœur"
-"L'ombre des arbres"
-"Chevaux de bois"
-Green
-Spleen

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Two Songs
-"La coccinelle"
-"Tarantelle"

Creator

Great Performers at Lincoln Center

Date

Contributor

Sylvia McNair, soprano
Martin Katz, piano
Carter Brey, cello

Type

Relation

"Taking Singing Beyond the Voice"
by Bernard Holland

New York Times
November 29, 1994