Welcome to the Mörike Lieder

Joan Rodgers, Stephan Genz and Roger Vignoles perform this first great cycle by Hugo Wolf on Sunday, November 6. VAS wanted to schedule these interpreters of this music since the release of their recording on the Hyperion label. At last, this year it is possible.

Hugo Wolf’s settings of poems by Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) represent the first full flowering of his 250 or so songs that we acknowledge today as the composer’s legacy.  In February 1888, shortly before his 28th birthday, the settings began to pour forth in a sudden flood of inspiration.  The writings of the South German pastor had been known to Wolf nearly ten years earlier (possibly through Schumann’s settings of five Mörike poems), and he had composed the endearing Mausfallensprüchlein in 1882.  But now in the dead of winter, housed outside Vienna in a friend’s apartment, he seemed to be actually inhabiting Mörike’s clothes and walking in his footsteps.  The music flowed from his pen, sometimes two or three songs in a day...

Further program information is on the website at www.vocalartssociety.org

Art Song Discovery Series in November

Our competition winners this year are Randa Rouweyha, soprano and Jeffrey Tarr, bass. They will be performing on three occasions in November:

• Sunday 13th at St. Patricks episcopal, Falls Church,
• Sunday 20th at the Westchester Apartments and
• Sunday 27th at the Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.
• Flyer on the website.

Young Concert Artists Presents

Schubert, Die Schöne Müllerin

 Introducing Philippe Castagner, tenor. Recipient of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Prize. Alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Development Program. The New York Sun writes “his manner is winning, his voice wide-ranging, flexible and soars beautifully. He could be a major tenor of his generation.”

Then on January 22nd, YCA presents soprano, Jennifer Check.

Young Concert Artists
Phone (202) 331-0405 

Post-Classical Ensemble
" Celebrating Don Quixote"
Saturday , November 19, 2005
7:30 p.m. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

Post-Classical Ensemble (“a welcome, edgy addition to the musical life of Washington” – The Washington Post) and New York’s Puppetsweat Theater pay homage to Cervantes’ immortal Don Quixote on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The centerpiece of this multi-media event is Manuel de Falla’s rarely staged late masterpiece Master Peter’s Puppet Show, a sublime chamber opera for life-sized puppets that enacts a rambunctious scene from the novel. The program also includes Don Quixote readings, Ravel’s classic Don Quixote songs, and Don Quixote music by Jacques Ibert.

CHRIS PEDRO TRAKAS, baritone; reader
AWET ANDEMICAEL, soprano
PETER BURROUGHS, tenor
All seats $25

Kennedy Center Box Office: (202) 467-4600