Extra Credit
On September 30th I attended my second SWIC Music Recital at the Schmidt Art Center. The venue for the afternoon recital was held in the same gallery room as my first experience. The rooms plain walls were adorned with art of varying mediums, in the front of the hall sat a white grand piano on parquet floors, played by Professor Gail Long, the only accompaniment for the day’s performers. This recital difference from the first event was rather than professors performing for the students it was students playing for a group of 50 of their peers and professors.
The first student to take center stage was Miss Candice Pajda, an opera student with a mezzo-soprano voice performing the German language, An die Musik (To Music). This art song from the Romantic period was composed by the then 20 year old Austrian Franz Schubert with text from a poem of his friend Franz von Schober; about the power of music to “kindle the heart to warm love” and carry us into a better world. The strophic song was beautifully sung in a major key in a slow tempo. The timbre of Miss Pajda voice moved the prayer like melody to moments of texture tenderness.
The second student was soprano Miss Anna Scott performing the aria Caro Mio Ben by the Classical Italian composer Giuseppe Giodani, who is best remembered for his operas and …show more content…
Whither must I wander?, is the seventh of the nine poems written by Robert Louis Stevenson and set to music in the Songs of Travel song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams completed in 1904. The song in an andante tempo was performed by the tenor Robert Voelker. Reflective in nature, the wonderfully melodic piece was highlighted by the dynamic softness and volume and highs and low of Mr. Voelker’s pitch. Having heard him sing beautifully as a teenager, it was a delight listening to the growth and maturity in his voice, making it a special
On September 30th I attended my second SWIC Music Recital at the Schmidt Art Center. The venue for the afternoon recital was held in the same gallery room as my first experience. The rooms plain walls were adorned with art of varying mediums, in the front of the hall sat a white grand piano on parquet floors, played by Professor Gail Long, the only accompaniment for the day’s performers. This recital difference from the first event was rather than professors performing for the students it was students playing for a group of 50 of their peers and professors.
The first student to take center stage was Miss Candice Pajda, an opera student with a mezzo-soprano voice performing the German language, An die Musik (To Music). This art song from the Romantic period was composed by the then 20 year old Austrian Franz Schubert with text from a poem of his friend Franz von Schober; about the power of music to “kindle the heart to warm love” and carry us into a better world. The strophic song was beautifully sung in a major key in a slow tempo. The timbre of Miss Pajda voice moved the prayer like melody to moments of texture tenderness.
The second student was soprano Miss Anna Scott performing the aria Caro Mio Ben by the Classical Italian composer Giuseppe Giodani, who is best remembered for his operas and …show more content…
Whither must I wander?, is the seventh of the nine poems written by Robert Louis Stevenson and set to music in the Songs of Travel song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams completed in 1904. The song in an andante tempo was performed by the tenor Robert Voelker. Reflective in nature, the wonderfully melodic piece was highlighted by the dynamic softness and volume and highs and low of Mr. Voelker’s pitch. Having heard him sing beautifully as a teenager, it was a delight listening to the growth and maturity in his voice, making it a special