The Arithmetic of Alternation
Monday | May 1 2023 | 7:30 pm
$5 student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330.
Mirror Visions Ensemble, having recently celebrated 30 years of exploring poetry through music, presents a new program reflecting its past, present and future. Devoted champions of art song and vocal chamber works, the Ensemble has commissioned every piece in this concert. The first portion of the program will feature several world premieres, including four songs by recent winners of MVE’s Young Composers Competition (Alex Burtzos, Griffin Candey, Cheng Jin Koh, and Lisa Neher), as well as works by B.E. Boykin, Randall Eng, and John Glover. The evening will conclude with a performance of Tom Cipullo’s song cycle Secrets, set to poetry by Linda Pastan. Mirror Visions’ performers will include soprano Mireille Asselin, baritone Jesse Blumberg, pianist Margaret Kampmeier, mezzo soprano Abi Levis, tenors Daniel McGrew and Scott Murphree, and pianist Grant Wenaus.
Mireille Asselin, soprano
Abi Levis, mezzo-soprano
Daniel McGrew, tenor
Scott Murphree, tenor
Jesse Blumberg, baritone
Grant Wenaus, piano
Margaret Kampmeier, piano
GRIFFIN CANDEY - What I Didn’t Know Before (Ada Limón)
CHENG JIN KOH - Impression IV (e.e. cummings)
ALEX BURTZOS - Sky (Nathan Kernan)
RANDALL ENG - Miracles (Walt Whitman)
B.E. BOYKIN - We Wear the Mask (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
JOHN GLOVER - Like Some Old fashioned Miracle (Emily Dickinson)
LISA NEHER - A Sonnet at the Edge of the Reef (Craig Santos Perez)
TOM CIPULLO - Secrets
