Lo sguardo poetico americano. Poeti e compositori dagli Stati Uniti e la produzione americana di “Art Songs”. Parte 2 – Suoni interiori. I temi della natura e dell’identità. Relazioni e concerto.
SOPRANO NADINE BENJAMIN, STRUCK BY SEVERE ILLNESS, IS UNABLE TO PERFORM IN OUR CONCERT. WE WELCOME SOPRANOS LJUBA BERGAMELLI AND LORNA WINDSOR WHO SING THE PROGRAM, ACCOMPANIED AT THE PIANO BY DR. NICOLE PANIZZA. THANK YOU.
Emergence Music—soprano Nadine Benjamin and pianist Nicole Panizza—perform in the ICAMus project, American Art Song: Poets and Composers from the United States, directed by Aloma Bardi and Nicole Panizza (who both offer a scholarly presentation, in Italian, prior to the recital). A collaboration of ICAMus with Lyceum Club Internazionale Firenze. After Aloma Bardi’s inaugural online lecture of May 17, 2021, the opening in-person event (the two presentations and the concert, with a special reflection by Nadine Benjamin) takes place in Florence, Lyceum Club Internazionale, on Monday, May 16, 2022.
In the image above: the duo Emergence Music (soprano Nadine Benjamin and pianist-musicologist Nicole Panizza). Photo © Robert Workman.
In the image below: Aloma Bardi in a screenshot from her video Lo sguardo poetico americano. Poeti e compositori dagli Stati Uniti e la produzione americana di “Art Songs”. Part 1 - Natura e lirismo: “America is a Poem”.
VIEW THE VIDEO (ICAMus YouTube Channel) HERE.
The video was originally published on the Lyceum Club Internazionale Firenze YouTube Channel on May 17, 2021, where it remains accessible HERE.
ACCOMPANYING IN-DEPTH RESOURCES (complete Essay with footnotes, PowerPoint presentation, List of music tracks with interactive links, Song texts and translations, Comments by the duo Emergence music, Bibliography) are accessible (PDF) and can be read and downloaded HERE.
The in-depth materials were originally published on the Lyceum Club Internazionale Firenze Website, where they remain accessible HERE.
EVENT PROGRAM
Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze, Palazzo Adami Lami, Lungarno Guicciardini 17, 50125 Firenze, Italy.
Monday, May 16, 2022, at 4:30 pm - Advance reservation required.
“Ingresso libero, fino al raggiungimento della capienza disponibile, con prenotazione via email a Irene Weber Froboese ( iwf@startext.biz ). È gradito, da parte dei NON soci, un contributo liberale”.
Per la partecipazione sono richiesti il Super Green Pass e l’uso della mascherina FFP2.
LO SGUARDO POETICO AMERICANO.
Poeti e compositori dagli Stati Uniti e la produzione americana di "Art Songs."
Una collaborazione di ICAMus con Lyceum Club Internazionale Firenze.
Lunedì 16 maggio 2022, ore 16,30, Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze
SUONI INTERIORI. I temi della natura e dell'identità. Relazioni e concerto.
Relazioni di introduzione e approfondimento:
ALOMA BARDI
Il verso di poeti e poetesse statunitensi, ispiratore di musica. "Nature is what we hear."
NICOLE PANIZZA
"Song of Myself": l'Art Song americano e la ricerca dell'identità.
CONCERTO
Emergence Music (Nadine Benjamin, soprano - Nicole Panizza, pianoforte)
PROGRAMMA:
LORI LAITMAN (1955)
Early Snow (2003)
Testi poetici di Mary Oliver (1935-2019)
Last Night the Rain Spoke
Blue Iris
Early Snow
AARON COPLAND (1900-1990)
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (1949-1950)
Testi poetici di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Nature, the gentlest Mother
There came a wind like a bugle
Why do they shut me out of Heaven?
The world feels dusty
Heart, we will forget Him
Dear March, come in!
Sleep is supposed to be
When they come back
I felt a funeral in my brain
I heard an organ talk sometimes
Going to Heaven!
The Chariot
INTERVALLO (15 mins.)
LUIGI ZANINELLI (1932)
Seven Epigrams of Emily Dickinson (2003)
Testi di prosa poetica dalle lettere di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Had I a pleasure you had not
Who knows where our hearts go
I trust this sweet May Morning
We wouldn't mind the sun, dear
I am studying music now
Till it has loved
You might not know I remembered you
SAMUEL BARBER (1910-1981)
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op. 24, H-114 (1947-1950)
Testo poetico di James Agee (1909-1955)
Versione per voce e pianoforte del compositore, pubblicata da Schirmer nel 1949. Barber compose inizialmente Knoxville per mezzosoprano e orchestra nel 1947, quindi lavorò alla versione per soprano e orchestra da camera e ne realizzò infine un song per voce e pianoforte.
da Four Songs, op. 13, H-93 (1937-1940):
3. Sure on this shining night; testo poetico adattato da James Agee (1909-1955)
4. Nocturne; testo poetico di Frederic Prokosch (1906-1989)
NADINE BENJAMIN
L'importanza della collaborazione. L'esperienza interpretativa dei song americani su versi di Emily Dickinson e di altri poeti.
Commenti e domande del pubblico; riflessioni conclusive.
View and download (PDF) the May 2022 ICAMus Poster in the two different color combinations (yellow-red & orange-purple) HERE.
In the photo above: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886); Daguerreotype, c. 1847; Amherst College Archives & Special Collections (Public Domain).
The poetry of Emily Dickinson has inspired many American composers. The ICAMus project, AMERICAN ART SONG: POETS AND COMPOSERS FROM THE UNITED STATES, includes musical settings of her poems and letters. This program features numerous rarities and emphasizes the prominence of American women poets and composers.
Learn more about this ongoing ICAMus program and the May 17, 2021 online presentation by Aloma Bardi, an exploration of American music and poetry, with particular focus on the theme of Nature. A collaboration of ICAMus with Lyceum Club Internazionale Firenze-Sezioni Musica e Letteratura, and SguardiDanza-Centro per la Coreografia e le Arti Visive. Click HERE.
