

Marilyn Horne Song Competition Winners Recital
PROGRAM
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Chansons de Bilitis HUGO WOLF Spanisches Liederbuch WONJU LEE 이화우 (Yihwawoo Songbook) JENNIFER HIGDON Wise Moon Song Cycle (world premiere, Music Academy commission) ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Galathea BENJAMIN BRITTEN Funeral Blues ISABELLE ABOULKER Lettre d’amour WILLIAM BOLCOM Amor the performance will not include an intermissionPROGRAM
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Chansons de Bilitis HUGO WOLF Spanisches Liederbuch WONJU LEE 이화우 (Yihwawoo Songbook) JENNIFER HIGDON Wise Moon Song Cycle (world premiere, Music Academy commission) ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Galathea BENJAMIN BRITTEN Funeral Blues ISABELLE ABOULKER Lettre d’amour WILLIAM BOLCOM Amor the performance will not include an intermissionShortly after returning from my residency at the Music Academy, I was walking one evening in Philadelphia, and looked up to see a very bright moon gazing down on me. I thought about how that celestial body has always been present, watching silently, and inspiring everyone from poets penning lines to astronauts pushing the boundaries of space. And for this composer, it felt like a noble starting point for creating songs for these talented performers.
Jennifer Higdon on Wise Moon
The Music Academy of the West Marilyn Horne Song Competition Recital is generously supported by Linda Seltzer Yawitz.
Wise Moon was commissioned by Music Academy of the West with the generous support of Stephen Schaible and Daron Builta.
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