SOPHIA ZHOU, piano

Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30 PM
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

This concert is sponsored by Mary and Christoph Mahle and Frances Luessenhop Usher

Tickets available this summer

BRAHMS:
Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO33

YCA Composer-in-Residence, NINA SHEKHAR:
World premiere

DEBUSSY:
Trois mélodies de Verlaine

CHRISTOPHER BERG:
Songs to poems by Frank O’Hara

BRITTEN:
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35

Songs by NOËL COWARD

I, a foolish child, am singing
Presently in the darkness
Though my song may not delight,
It has freed me from fear.
—Heinrich Heine

“These songs by Brahms, Beamish, Debussy, Britten and others—songs from across cultures, time and space—are windows onto a very present experience: we hear in them a probing voice, an “I” in search of itself. Plagued by love and loss, gripped with desire, driven by faith and haunted by doubt, these songs are every bit as ambiguous and ambivalent as we are. And if they do not answer our questions or teach us precisely who and how to be, they do something as least as valuable in making us less alone.”
–Daniel McGrew

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