Thursday, August 17 | 8:30PM | Tent at Camden Public Library Amphitheatre
Age 35 +: $38 | Age 22-34: $20 | Age 21 & Under: Pay What You Wish
JESSE BLUMBERG, baritone
NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor
JAMES AUSTIN SMITH, oboe
HENRY KRAMER, piano
“Golden-toned baritone” (New York Times), Jesse Blumberg leads a candlelit concert of vocal music including excerpts from Schubert’s bucolic Die schöne Müllerin in the 200th anniversary year of its composition, as well as other gorgeous songs by Schumann, Fauré and Amy Beach.
The concert also features “one of the world’s most remarkable singers,” (Boston Globe), Nicholas Phan and James Austin Smith praised for his “bold, keen sound” (New Yorker) performing songs from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Blake Songs for tenor and oboe. Nick joins Jesse for a captivating set of musical theater and cabaret songs and duets. Pianist Henry Kramer, praised by Gramophone UK for “exemplary flexible partnership” completes the stellar ensemble for this atmospheric and sensual vocal concert.
PROGRAM
A Three Season Porch (Jesse Blumberg and Henry Kramer)
Amy Beach - The Year’s at the Spring
Schubert - From Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill)
Das Wandern (Wandering)
Wohin? (Where To?)
Vaughan Williams - It was a Lover and his Lass (with Nicholas Phan)
Brahms - Feldeinsamkeit (Alone in Fields)
Fauré - Dans la forêt de Septembre (In the September Forest)
Schumann - Frühlingsnacht (Spring Night)
Musical Settings of William Blake (Nicholas Phan, James Austin Smith, Henry Kramer)
Vaughan WIlliams - from Ten Blake Songs
Infant Joy
Kirkland Snider - Mad Song
Vaughan WIlliams - from Ten Blake Songs
The Piper
Cruelty Has a Human Heart
The Divine Image
The Lamb
Esperanza Spalding - Little Fly (arranged by Gabriel Kahane)
All Together Now (Jesse Blumberg, Nicholas Phan, Henry Kramer)
Tom Cipullo - What We Want
Ricky Ian Gordon - Souvenir
Stephen Sondheim - Giants in the Sky
Errollyn Wallen
My Feet May Take a Little While
What Shall I Sing?
Frank Loesser - Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
David Baker and Sheldon Harnick - Someone is sending me flowers
David Baker and Sheldon Harnick - Someone is sending me flowers
HONORARY CONCERT SPONSORS: Mazie Cox and Brinkley Thorne