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PARADOX OF PRAISE

Saturday, August 8, 2020 (7:30 PM - 11:00 PM) (CDT)

Description

Grammy award-winning bass-baritone, Dashon Burton opens this program with a mixed set of art song and German lieder, featuring selections from Schumann’s Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love) and Margaret Bond’s incisive settings of Langston Hughes. Paired with Felix Mendelssohn’s second piano trio, with a final quotation of the Psalm 100 Doxology, this production explores praise and rejection.

Franz Schubert: Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen
Florence Price: Night
Margaret Bonds: Three Dream Portraits
Robert Schumann: Selections from Dichterliebe
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
Stefano Flavoni, piano

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor
Wyatt Underhill, violin
Daniel Lelchuk, cello
Henry Kramer, piano

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Stefano Flavoni
Assistant Conductor
San Francisco Symphony
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Wyatt Underhill
Violin
San Francisco Symphony
Wyatt Underhill joined the San Francisco Symphony as Assistant Concertmaster in 2018. He was previously assistant concertmaster of...

Daniel Lelchuk
Cello
Louisiana Philharmonic
Daniel Lelchuk was appointed Assistant Principal cellist of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in Fall 2013 by music director Ca...

Henry Kramer
Piano
Avery Fisher Career Grant
Pianist Henry Kramer is developing a reputation as a pianist of rare sensitivity who combines versatile programming and “astonis...