Saturday, August 4, 2018
8:00 PM
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Nadine Sierra, soprano
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Elliot Madore, baritone
Eric Owens, bass
Bramwell Tovey leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a cast of singers in Bernstein's song cycle "Songfest," a celebration of America through poetry and music.
Hear Bramwell Tovey on Songfest and meeting and working with Leonard Bernstein:
BERNSTEIN Songfest
- To the Poem (Frank O'Hara)
- The Pennycandystore Beyond the El (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
- A Julia de Burgos (Julia de Burgos)
- To What You Said (Walt Whitman)
- I, Too, Sing America (Langston Hughes) & Okay 'Negroes" (June Jordan)
- To My Dear and Loving Husband (Anne Bradstreet)
- Storyette H.M. (Gertrude Stein)
- “if you can’t eat you got to”(e.e. cummings)
- Music I Heard With You (Conrad Aiken)
- Zizi’s Lament (Gregory Corso)
- What lips my lips have kissed... (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- “Israfel” (Edgar Allen Poe)
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
See the program and text for Songfest from the Tanglewood performance led by Bernstein in 1988.