Facebook Livestream: April 21, 12:00p.m. ET
On-demand access: https://www.curtis.edu/performances/fy21-recital-registration/crrp---042121/

Curtis vocal students present a lush bounty of works depicting man’s profound, joyful, and sometimes adversarial relationship to the natural world. The recital opens with passionate and jazzy selections from Jake Heggie’s Natural Selection, a reflection on a young woman’s coming of age. Songs from Franz Schubert’s genre-defining song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin illustrate a young journeyman’s first encounter with unrequited love. On the second half of the recital, you will hear folk songs by Chinese populist composer Huang Zi, delicately crafted melodies by prolific American tunesmith John Duke, and Michael Tilson Thomas’s “Grace,” a tender song of thanks composed for the 70th birthday of Leonard Bernstein (Conducting ’41).

Program (subject to change)

FRANZ SCHUBERT Selections, Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795
Evan Gray, bass-baritone
Ting Ting Wong, piano

JAKE HEGGIE Selections, Natural Selection
Sage DeAgro-Ruopp, soprano
Ting Ting Wong, piano

JOHN DUKE “The Bird”
“Loveliest of Trees”
“A Piper”
Olivia Smith, soprano
Ting Ting Wong, piano

HUANG ZI “Three Wishes of the Rose”
Olivia Smith, soprano
Ting Ting Wong, piano

HUANG ZI “Flowers in Fog”
Sophia Maekawa, mezzo-soprano
Ting Ting Wong, piano

HUANG ZI “Plum Blossoms in the Snow”
Evan Gray, bass-baritone
Ting Ting Wong, piano

MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS “Grace”
Sophia Maekawa, mezzo-soprano
Ting Ting Wong, piano

About Curtis recitals: Students perform solo and chamber works from locations around the globe in new performances available each week. Free registration is required via Curtis’s Performance Calendar and grants on-demand access to each recital.

Once you have received the watch link, you will have on-demand access to the performance through May.