Love, War, and Peace

Open Concert Program

Baritone Mark Daboll and pianist Sarah Westbrook reunite as a duo to present rarely-heard gems including songs by Poulenc, Wolf, Barber, Klein, and Berg.

Mark Daboll, baritone
Sarah Westbrook, piano

Program

Poetry of Josef von Eichendorff set by Hugo Wolf and Erich Korngold:
Das Ständchen (Wolf)
Erwartung (Wolf)
Nachtwanderer, Op. 9, No. 2 (Korngold)
Verschwiegene Liebe (Wolf)
Der Soldat (Wolf)
Der Kranke, Op. 38, No. 2 (Korngold)
Das Ständchen, Op. 9, No. 3 (Korngold)

Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War by Guillaume Apollinaire set by Francis Poulenc:
L’Espionne
Mutation
Vers le sud
Il pleut
La grâce exilée
Aussi bien que les cigales
Voyage

In the Wilderness (Samuel Barber / poem by Robert Graves)
O Boundless, Boundless Evening (Barber / poem by Christopher Middleton)
Kidnap Poem (Eric Klein / poem by Nikki Giovanni)
Poem: “Lana Turner Has Collapsed” (Christopher Berg / poem by Frank O’Hara)