Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Fiesta!

Tonight at 6:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” you’ll hear Ruth Crawford Seeger’s “String Quartet” on the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. At 7:00 you’ll hear a 19th Century Brazilian Opera by Carlos Gomes on “Fiesta”.

Sunday, July 20, 6:00 pm: Chamber Mus. Soc. of Lincoln Center (CMS 25-44)

A Century of American Music

Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet (1931) (University of Illinois’ Jupiter String Quartet)

Alan Louis Smith: Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman (from the Daily Journal of Margaret Ann Alsip Frink, 1850) for Mezzo-Soprano, Piano, Violin, and Cello (2006)

Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano; Warren Jones, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Priscilla Lee, cello

Sunday, July 20, 7:00 pm: Fiesta! With Elbio Barilari (FST 25-17)

THE PROGRAM DIFFERS FROM THE ONE LISTED IN PATTERNS MAG PER THE CREATOR

A 19th Century Brazilian Opera: Lo Schiavo by Carlos Gomes

A rarely heard opera from the great Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes, Lo Schiavo is a drama

involving Brazilians and Portuguese; this is the love story of Américo, son of Count Rodrigo, and

Ilàra, who is being forced to marry another. We will hear highlights from this romantic opera.

Carlos Gomes: Preludio, from Lo Schiavo; Selections from Act 1, of Lo Schiavo; Act 4, of Lo Schiavo
Svetla Vassileva (Llàra), Massimiliano Pisapia (Americo), Andrea Borghini (Iberè), Elisa Balbo (La contessa di Boissy), Daniele Terenzi (Gianfèra), Dongho Kim (Il conte Rodrigo/Goitacà) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari; John Neschling, conductor (Antônio Carlos Gomes: Lo Schiavo - Dynamic CDS7845)