Brown's gone from dancing in silence to dancing to classical, baroque, or jazz music (not to mention the two operas and Schubert
song cycle she has directed); she's gone from making the work on a shoestring to receiving a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship--the first given to a woman choreographer.
Costello's most recent album, North, was a jazzy, piano-based
song cycle on love lost and found.
He will also be singing Dichterliebe (The Poet's Love) by Schumann, a
song cycle describing the ecstasy and torment of young love.
song cycle Songs of Great Men and Death at the Emily Dickinson
Youens's argument is convincing, although her lengthy treatment of Luise's problematic relationships (particularly those not involving Muller) at times seems of little import to Schubert's
song cycle. Youens anticipates this reaction, claiming the affairs have an intrinsic interest and help to define a privileged moment in the history of the lied.
I had to drag myself back to The Juliet Letters (Warner Bros.), Costello's
song cycle with the UK's version of our Kronos Quartet, and the live version revealed why: the Brodskys are not exciting.
Once a biennial event, it is now an annual competition, thanks in large part to the generosity, support, and encouragement of American composer Lori Laitman, and is meant "to stimulate the creation of quality vocal literature through the cooperation of singer and composer." The competition has been in place since 1983, and requires submissions of "a
song cycle, group of songs, or extended single song of approximately 20 minutes...
'THE BEAUTIFUL Maiden of the Mill,' the dramatic Schubert
song cycle of doomed love, will be the country's premier tenor Arthur Espiritu's vehicle of expression and musicality in his latest homecoming concert on Aug.
The renowned, Montreal-born Finley partners here with English pianist Julius Drake in performances of the two Robert Schumann cycles tided Liederkreis ("
Song Cycle"), op.
As well as paying homage to Britten, it will showcase music by his contemporaries who inspired him and by some of today's young composers who are carrying on his
song cycle tradition.
Richard Rijnvos, who is a reader in composition at the university, is to receive the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulen Prize 2011 for his operatic
song cycle Die Kammersngerin.
Benjamin Britten's
song cycle Les Illuminations has become so closely associated with Peter Pears it's often assumed that it was tailored for the tenor voice.