Dreams of Distant Lands

Join E4TT for our season closer, “Dreams of Distant Lands,” with music by composers, about artists, or to texts by poets who were oppressed in their times or who longed for their native lands.
Featuring:

“From Jewish Folk Poetry” (sung in Yiddish) by Dmitri Shostakovich

“Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado” by Luigi Dallapiccola

“Unter dayne vayse shtern” (from “Vilna Poems”) by David Garner, to Yiddish poetry by Avram Sutzkever;

Ricercar on the Name of Charles Munch by David Garner

“Winter Dream (in memoriam Charlotte Salomon)” by Dalit Warshaw

“Ji-Dong-Nuo” by Chen Yi

Musicians: Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Dale Tsang, piano, with guests Chelsea Hollow, soprano; Deborah Rosengaus, mezzo-soprano; Jonathan Smucker, tenor; and Dalit Warshaw, composer/pianist.
Pre-concert composer talk with Warshaw and Garner at 7:30 p.m..