The SongFest 2010 program booklet contains the following:
Program notes and song listings for the following concerts:
-New Voices in American Song (includes songs by Libby Larsen, Tom Cipullo, John Musto, Jake Heggie, and Lori Laitman)
–Later the Same Evening & Volpone (Musto) & The Scarlet Letter (Laitman) (contemporary American opera)
Listings of songs performed in classes about German, French, Russian and Spanish art song, as well as baroque ornamentation, oratorio and aria classes and a class on recitative
Program listings for the following concerts:
-A Celebration of French Mélodie and Operetta
-Poets’ Round Table: Dorothy, Edna, Langston and Walt
-The American Songbook
-American Song is Alive and Well: 2010 SongFest Faculty Composers
–Italienisches Liederbuch by Hugo Wolf
-New Voices in American Song (songs by Valerie Saalbach, Ben Moore, John Harbison, as well as Laitman, Musto, and Cipullo)
-special programs with the Marc and Eva Stern Fellows
–Amore…Italian Song
–Mélodies sur des poèmes de Paul Verlaine (Debussy & Hahn)
–Fiançailles Pour Rire (Poulenc)
-Samuel Barber
-Songs of John Musto
-Broadway Composers in Song
-Franz Schubert & Robert Schumann
-Creativity at the Keyboard: The Accompanist as Composer
-InsideOut Writers concert
-Gabriel Fauré
-Richard Strauss
–Les Freres d’Outre Manche
-Germany in the XX Century
–La Chanson d’Eve (Fauré)
–L’Horizon chimérique (Fauré)
-Benjamin Britten: Winter Words
-Echoes of Musto in Lieder and Mélodie
–Dichterliebe, Op. 48 (Schumann)
-The Romantics (Berlioz, Liszt, Bachelet, and Chausson)
-Alban Berg
-“Poems set by Different Composers”
-Songs of Belief
An introduction to the SongFest Bach Cantata Institute
Biographies of artist faculty members, including pianist Graham Johnson and composer Lori Laitman, as well as biographies of the Stern Fellows and other participating performers.
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© SongFest, used here with permission
A special thanks to Rosemary Hyler Ritter and SongFest