Berceuse
(10 Audio Vignettes Inspired by Poetry)

with

Svetozar Ivanov, piano

Partially underwritten by Mrs. Nellie Gipson

Program

Berceuse
music by Louis Andriessen – “Berceuse”
poetry by Sappho – “fragment 46”, Ancient Greek reading by Sister of Iris

El Tango de la Muerte
music by Alberto Novión - “El Tango de la Muerte” and Frederic Rzewski – “Steptangle”
poetry by Alejandra Pizarnik – from “Uncollected Poems”

Autumn Leaves
music by Michael Ippolito – “Album (Autumn) Leaf”
poetry by Jacques Prévert – “Autumn Leaves”

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Bella Ciao
music by Sahba Aminikia – “Inspector’s Scrutiny”
audio recordings from Evin Prison and street protests in Iran

In Time of Daffodils
music by Valentin Silvestrov – “Elegy”
poem by E. E. Cummings – “In Time of Daffodils”
field recordings from The Valley of Daffodils in Ukraine

Thirst
music by Alexander Scriabin – “Preludes op. 74 No. 1,2,4”
poetry by Blaga Dimitrova – “Thirst”

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Gloomy Sunday
music by Rezső Seress – “Gloomy Sunday” and George Crumb – “Tora! Tora! Tora!”
poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca – “Farewell”

The Bells
music by Henry Cowell – “Fairy Bells” and Lucciano Berio – “Erdenklavier”
poetry by Edgar Allan Poe – “The Bells”

Berceuse
music by Robert Helps – “Radiance”
poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca – “Berceuse for a Sleeping Mirror”