Events

Music of Schubert and Schumann, a film featuring Morton Feldman singing, and soprano Tiffany DuMouchelle’s vocalization/interpretation of text from English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge are highlights of a variegated program by A Musical Feast, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Friday, October 20, at 8pm.

The Schumann—four songs from his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben—will be performed on solo cello by Natasha Farny, and a single Schubert work—his Ständchen—will be performed by Farny and pianist Anna Kisssel; the Feldman Sings footage is from a 1977 filmed interview about his opera in the works at that time, Neither, during which he intoned portions of the score; the Coleridge work, called A Cantata for Coleridge, based on the poet’s notebooks from his meditational treks across the Lake District, Wales, and Scotland, was conceived by Ann C. Colley, formerly of the Buffalo State College English Department, currently a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University.          

Also on the program, composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Ineffable, and portions of Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s Signs, Games and Messages, both performed on solo violin by Hanna Hurwitz.  Also, Seek Water, based on text by thirteenth-century Persian mystic poet Rumi, translated and with music composed by Zahra Partovi, sung by soprano DuMouchelle, with Steve Solook on bells.  And Un Grand Sommeil Noir, composed by Edgar Varese, based on text by Paul Verlaine, sung by DuMouchelle, piano accompaniment by Kissel.