网曝吃瓜

Mezzo-soprano Kathleen A. Lane of the 网曝吃瓜 Music Department will present a recital of songs by J. S. Bach, Aaron Copland and Gustav Mahler Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Jensen Grand Concert Hall, Stephens Performing Arts Center. General admission is $5, $3 for 网曝吃瓜 faculty and staff, and free to 网曝吃瓜 students showing a current Bengal Card.

Prof. Lane will be accompanied by well-known performer Mark Neiwirth of the 网曝吃瓜 piano faculty in Gustav Mahler鈥檚 鈥淩ueckert Lieder,鈥� and in both sets of Aaron Copland鈥檚 popular 鈥淥ld American Songs.鈥� Prof. Erika Schulte will join Lane and Neiwirth on the violin in the beloved aria  鈥淓rbarme Dich鈥� from J. S. Bach鈥檚 1729 鈥淪t. Matthew Passion.鈥�

鈥淚鈥檝e performed and taught most of 鈥極ld American Songs鈥� over the years,鈥� Lane says, 鈥渂ut I鈥檝e never sung all 10 on the same program.鈥� The two collections run the gamut from spirituals to minstrel songs, from lullabies to parlor ballads.

Popularly associated with musical Americana, Copland was the Paris-trained son of Russian Jewish immigrants, a lifelong New Yorker 鈥� as American as Ellis Island. Lane delights in the paradox: 鈥淚n 1950, the first 鈥極ld American Songs鈥� premiered in England, with tenor Peter Pears, and composer Benjamin Britten at the piano,鈥� she points out. 鈥淭hese songs might play at being homespun, but they鈥檙e the settings of a highly sophisticated international artist 鈥� completely cosmopolitan.鈥�

If Copland represents Old World sophistication reborn in the New, Viennese Gustav Mahler embodies the Old World at its pre-war height. 鈥淭hese 1901-02 settings of poetry by Friedrich Rueckert epitomize late German Romanticism at its most intensely expressive,鈥� Lane says. 鈥淢ahler pushes chromatic complexity to the brink 鈥� it鈥檚 a spiritual outcry.鈥�

Prof. Lane joined the 网曝吃瓜 voice faculty in 1993, after teaching voice for five years at the Yale University School of Drama. Since arriving in Idaho, she has promoted the great song-cycles, including Dominick Argento鈥檚 鈥淔rom the Diary of Virginia Woolf鈥�; Aaron Copland鈥檚 鈥淥ld American Songs鈥� and 鈥淭welve Songs by Emily Dickinson鈥�; Hector Berlioz鈥檚 鈥淟es nuits d鈥檈te鈥�; Gustav Mahler鈥檚 鈥淜indertotenlieder鈥� and 鈥淟ieder eines fahrenden Gesellen鈥�; Robert Schumann鈥檚 鈥淔rauenlieben und 鈥搇eben鈥�; and Richard Wagner鈥檚 鈥淲esendonck Lieder.鈥�

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Kathleen A. Lane 282-2423, or lanekath@isu.edu.