CMSCVA artists demonstrate how a single word or a simple theme can be transformed into something extraordinary. Along the way, hear music by Enrique Granados, Benjamin Britten, John Adams and Consuelo Velázquez. This concert is presented in conjunction with the Richmond Pubic Library’s Gellman Room Concert Series.
Program:
Enrique Granados The Maiden and the Nightingale from Goyescas
Consuelo Velázquez Bésame Mucho
- e. cummings – [here’s to opening and upward]
- Pablo Neruda – Sonnet 89 from One Hundred Love Sonnets
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox – “Friendship After Love”
Benjamin Britten Chaconne from Suite for Solo Cello in C major, op. 80
- Edwin Morgan – “Opening the Cage”
John Adams Relaxed Groove from Road Movies
- Gerard Manley Hopkins – “The Windhover”
- Jean Valentine – “X”
- Robert Hayden – “Those Winter Sundays”
Franz Schubert Introductions & Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802 ‘20
Performers:
Mary Boodell. Flute
Diana Cohen, violin
Chioke I’Anson, spoken word
Angela Lehman, writer
Roman Rabinovich, piano
James Wilson, cello