
Programme
FREIHEIT
I.
Gustav Mahler: Lied des verfolgten im Turm (des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Alexander Zemlinsky: Mit Trommeln und Pfeifen; Op 8 (von Liliencron)
Gustav Mahler: Revelge (des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Paul Hindemith: O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor (Walt Whitman)
Charles Ives: Tom Sails Away (Charles Ives), The things our Fathers Loves (Charles Ives), In Flanders Fields (John McCrae)
Kurt Weill: Dirge for two Veterans (Walt Whitman)
— Interval –
LIBERTY
II.
Henry Burleigh: Ethiopia Saluting the Colors (Walt Whitman)
Arthur Farwell: Song of the Deathless Voice (trad Native American)
Michael Daugherty: Letter to Mrs Bixby (Abraham Lincoln)
Jennifer Higdon: The Death of Lincoln (William Cullen Bryant)
Margaret Bonds: The negro speaks of rivers
Jean Berger: Lonely People (Langston Hughes)
Margaret Bonds: I.too
Leonard Bernstein: To what you said (Walt Whitman)
Thomas Hampson baritone
Vlad Iftinca piano
Tickets 60 | 55 | 40 €
Duration 2 h, 1 intermission
American baritone Thomas Hampson returns to Turku to give a recital. Titled ‘Songs of America’, it comprises American repertoire that Hampson wishes to promote. The programme is a brilliant musical panorama of American melodies.
Tickets that have already been purchased or reserved for 2021 will be valid with no further action in 2022.