Program notes for the following concert:
-“Concert of New America Song,” featuring works by Robert Zuidam, Robert Sierra, John Harbison, and James Primosch, as well as some of Ruth Crawford Seeger‘s settings of Carl Sandburg

A spotlight on James Primosch, Director of Program for New American Song

Listings of songs performed in classes about German, French, and American art song, as well as Bach cantatas, aria, auditioning and opera classes

Program listings for the following concerts:
-J. S. Bach: Sacred Cantatas
-New American Voices: Florestan Recital Project
-An American Cameo
–The Deepest Desire (Jake Heggie)
-Performances classes of songs by Ricky Ian Gordon and Jake Heggie
-Franz Schubert (several)
–Ariettes Oubliées
-Robert Schumann (several)
–Gesänge aus “Wilhelm Meister” (Goethe)
–Here and Gone (Jake Heggie)
–Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart
-Benjamin Britten (several)
–Les Illuminations (Britten)
-Gabriel Fauré (several)
–Rise and Fall (Jake Heggie)
–Sieben Frühe Lieder (Alban Berg)
-James Primosch
–Mirabai Songs (John Harbison)
–Flashes and Illuminations (John Harbison)
-New American Voices (Carter, Crumb, Decker, Ives, Moravec, Weesner)
–Milosz Songs (John Harbison)
–Elisabeth Bishop & Czeslaw Milosz
-Charles Ives
–Samuel Barber
–Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (Aaron Copland)
-France in the 20th Century
-Germany in the 20th Century
–Mottetti di Montale (John Harbison)
–Gatsby Songs (John Harbison)

Biographies of performing artist and artist faculty members, as well as information about the Florestan Recital Project
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A special thanks to Rosemary Hyler Ritter and SongFest