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New Classics: An Evening of Modern Song

  • Arthur Zankel Music Center 815 North Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866 United States (map)
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A spectacular line-up of 20th & 21st-century arias, art songs and song cycles. 10 top-vocalists from across the United States will be showcasing their talents, from the avant-garde to post-modern romance.

Wine, Beer & Snack Bar opens @ 7 PM. $6 Drinks make this the best deal in Saratoga Springs!

PROGRAM
STEPHEN SONDHEIM – Johanna from Sweeney Todd
STEPHEN SONDHEIM – I Remember from Evening Primrose
STEPHEN SONDHEIM – Finishing the Hat from Sunday in the Park with George

from Liasons: Reimagining Sondheim for The Piano
JON BATISTE –The Gun Song/Ballad of Booth from Assassins
KEVIN PUTS – Being Alive from Company

DARON HAGEN – Little Uneasy Song
DARON HAGEN – Washing Her Hair
DARON HAGEN – Amelia’s Song
TANIA LEON – from Atwood Songs

Notes towards a poem that can never be written
Eating Fire
Four Evasions
 

FLORENCE PRICE – Night
FLORENCE PRICE – Hold Fast to Dreams
NICO MUHLY – from Last Letter Song

Dear Molly
Dear Leader of the Company
 

NED ROREM – Early in the Morning
NED ROREM – O You, Whom I Often and Silently Come
GERALD FINZI – from Let Us Garlands Bring

Come Away Death
O Mistress Mine

TOM CIPULLO – Another Reason I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House
CELIUS DOUGHERTY – The Bird and the Beast
CHRISTOPHER BERG – Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed) 
ROBERT PATERSON – Extraordinary

ARTISTS
Virginia Douglas, soprano
Ju Hyeon Han, soprano
Alexandra Lang, soprano
Monica Yunus, soprano
Felicia Zangari, soprano
Sarah Stevenson, mezzo soprano
Brook Xiao, countertenor
Thomas Bocchi, tenor
Christopher Herbert, baritone
William Nederlander, baritone
Tom Laskowski, bass-baritone
Anthony De Mare, piano
Timothy Long, piano
Cris Frisco, piano

Program and artists subject to change

Earlier Event: June 10
American Modern Ensemble