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Baritone Tyler Duncan and Pianist Erika Switzer perform Iman Habibi’s Khayyam-Fitzgerald songs, The River-Lip and False Morning at Aspect Chamber Music Series.
ORIENT IN SONG
Thursday, January 19, 7.30PM
Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73rd St, New York, NY 10021
Tyler Duncan, baritone
Erika Switzer, piano
Illustrated talk by Nicholas Chong
Songs by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Viktor Ullmann, Jean-Émile-Paul Cras, Darius Milhaud, Iman Habibi
The great Goethe, when in his sixties, fell under the spell of Hafiz, the 14th century Persian poet. Hafiz’s poetry inspired Goethe to create the ‘West-Östlicher Divan’ – a collection of love poems, epigrams and drinking songs. Goethe’s life-intoxicated verses inspired composers such as Robert Schumann, while poems of Hafiz were set to music by Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Viktor Ullmann. The spell spread outside the German-speaking lands, drawing in the very different sensibilities of Jean Cras and Darius Milhaud. Join us as we explore Europe’s century-long love affair with the Orient through poetry, painting and song.