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Mostly Mayrhofer

A collaboration concert with Oberlin Conservatory voice and string students and pianists of the Oberlin-Como Piano Academy and the International Piano Academ Lake Como.

Part One:  Saturday, February 11, 8 pm
Part Two:  Sunday, February 12, 8 pm

This concert program is an extension of a 2017 Winter Term project led by Professor Philip Highfill that made an intensive study of songs by Franz Schubert based on poems by Austrian poet and librettist Johann Mayrhofer (1787-1836). Mayrhofer wrote poems or libretti for 47 of Schubert’s songs and two of his operas. 

Program
songs, solo piano works, and chamber music by Franz Schubert  

poetry of Johann Mayrhofer
Geheimnis
Sehnsucht
Nachtstück

Erlafsee
Abendstern
Nachtviolen

Fragment aus dem Aeschylus
Freiwilliges Versinken
Auflösung

—intermission—

poetry of Friedrich Rückert
Sei mir gegrüßt

Fantasy for Violin and Piano, D. 934

Performing Artists
Amber Monroe and Amy Weintraub, sopranos
Olivia Cosio, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Music, tenor
Cory McGee, bass
Jerry Xiong, violin
Alessandro Deljavan, piano
Lucas Porter, piano