Dawn Upshaw/Gilbert Kalish Benefit Recital for The Bard College Conservatory of Music

A song recital featuring Soprano Dawn Upshaw accompanied by pianist Gilbert Kalish at 7:00 pm on April 27, 2007.

BENEFIT TICKETS:

$80 (includes a $25 tax deductible donation)
$60 (includes a $20 tax deductible donation)
$40 (includes a $15 tax deductible donation)

REGULAR TICKET PRICES WITHOUT DONATION:

$55, $40, $25

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Ms. Upshaw and Mr. Kalish will perform Stephen Collins Foster’s “Beautiful Child of Song”;
Ruth Crawford Seeger’s “White Moon,” from Five Songs; Charles Ives’s “Two little flowers (and dedicated to them)”;
Gabriel Fauré’s “L’aube blanche,” from La chanson d’Eve;
Claude Debussy’s “La Flûte de Pan” and “La chevelure,” from Chansons de Bilitis;
Maurice Ravel’s “Le cygne”;
Olivier Messiaen’s “Le collier” and “Prière exaucée,” from Poèmes pour Mi;
Robert Schumann’s “Er ist’s!”, and “Mignon” (Kennst du das Land?);
Hugo Wolf’s “Die Bekehrte,” from Goethe-Lieder;
Alban Berg’s “Die Nachtigall,” from Sieben Frühe Lieder;
Kurt Weill’s “Je ne t’aime pas”;
William Bolcom’s “Song of Black Max,” “Waitin’,” and “Amor,” from Cabaret Songs.
Mr. Kalish will perform Charles Ives’s Piano Sonata, No. 2, “Concord, Mass., The Alcotts,” and a work by Johannes Brahms.

This program benefits the scholarship fund of The Bard College Conservatory of Music, an innovative double-degree program that is guided by the principle that musicians should be broadly educated in the liberal arts and sciences to achieve their greatest potential.

Soprano DAWN UPSHAW has achieved worldwide celebrity as a singer of opera and concert repertoire ranging from the sacred works of Bach to the freshest contemporary sounds. A three-time Grammy Award winner, she has premiered more than 40 works in the past decade and is featured on more than 50 recordings, including the million-selling Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Gorecki. At Bard College she is Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts and Humanities. At the Bard Conservatory, she is director of the new Graduate Program in Vocal Arts.
Pianist GILBERT KALISH is a profoundly influential figure in American music. He was the pianist of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players for 30 years and a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. From 1969 to 1997, he was a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center; he was chairman of the faculty at Tanglewood from 1985 to 1997. Mr. Kalish is a distinguished professor and head of performance activities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

For benefit tickets to the buffet supper with the artists that follows the recital, please call Conservatory’s development office at 845-758-7866.