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Poems & PreludesSoaring Romantic and Impressionistic masterpieces by Rachmaninoff, Debussy and Schoenberg are showcased by soprano Vanessa Langer and pianist Vera Breheda. Praised for her “flexible and multi-hued voice” (-San Francisco Classical Voice) and “enormous stage presence” (-New Classical LA), soprano Vanessa Langer joins Vera Breheda a “ pianist [who] reaches for the stars with her talent…” (-GERMANY, Saarbruecker Zeitung) in a program that surveys the great song heritage from turn of the century France, Russia and Vienna.
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Refuse CollectionThe Refuse Project pairs the world premiere of a new monodrama ‘Refuse Collection’ (2016/17) by Bay Area composer David Coll with ‘Position Influence’ (2010) for soprano and sound sculpture and “Apparition: Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano” (1979) by Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Crumb. Crumb and Coll cohere new modes of extended vocal and piano techniques with the poetry of Walt Whitman (“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”) and Jeremy Prynne (“Refuse Collection”).
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The Plath ProjectYotam Haber's In Plaster and Jen Wang's Firesong receive world premieres at the Center for New Music alongside works by Shulamit Ran, Richard Pearson Thomas and Ned Rorem, all devoted to the poetic works of 20th centuries tragic bard Sylvia Plath.
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