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...more modern music: Berg's Seven Early Songs, begun in the composer's twenty-first year. The music is motley, elusive stuff that manages to sound at times like Schumann and at others like Schoenberg. The poetry of the seven different poets is altogether better and fresher than the Schubert texts. Of special literary value is Rilke's text for the fourth song, "The Crown of Dreams," but the musical hair-raisers were the first ("Night") and seventh ("Summer Days"). In each, Upshaw's intonation and delivery etched certain phrases in the mind: "Gib acht" ("give heed") in the first...
...surprise, the program opened with Goode accompanying Upshaw in Schubert songs. Either out of neglect or, more amusingly, as a nod to the super exposure of such music in this eternal Schubertiade of a year, the program notes made no mention of the five featured lieder. All from the last six years of Schubert's life, the songs in this set must have been chosen out of a desire for heavy and contant emotional contrast...
...novelist Joseph Eichendorff, Schumann dashed off these twelve songs in a few weeks in May--have you finished your term papers? The duo's singing and playing shared a similar exuberance. Upshaw's fierce glares and terror-filled voice in "Waldgespruch" (Wood Dialogue) were playfully evocative of the Schubert Erlkoening, while Goode evoked the Liszt "Wild Jagd" transcendental etude when a line of Eichendorff's mentioned "ein lustiges Jagd," a merry hunt. The music of many of the songs demonstrated Schumann's lifelong obsession with Beethoven's "An die ferne Geliebte," the first song-cycle ever...
Starting tonight and through the end of this week, WHRB will be playing Schubert continuously. The play list will include "everything he ever wrote" which, according to Twiss, includes many pieces listeners will "never hear on any other station in the world...
...Celebration of Brahms, Schubert, and Mendelssohn. Featuring the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Harvard Wind Ensemble, Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Tickets: $6/8/11 students; $8/11/13 general. Sanders Theatre...