Sponsored by St. John’s Music on the Corner concert series in Roanoke, VA. Providing free concerts since 2000, this recital will feature compositions set to text’s of infamous Literary Giants including: Dante Alighieri, T.S. Eliot, Maya Angelou, James Joyce, Langston Hughes, and Gertrude Norman. Featuring Soprano, Danielle Talamantes, Bass-baritone, Kerry Wilkerson, and composer and collaborative pianist, Henry Dehlinger. Free and open to the public, no tickets required!
The long-awaited world premier of Henry Dehlinger’s setting of T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is finally here! Written expressly for the voice of soprano, Danielle Talamantes, Prufrock embodies a modern musical language that makes use of eclecticism while also suggesting the familiar symphonic American vernacular of 20th century composers like Howard Hanson, Samuel Barber, and Leonard Bernstein.
The evening also features world-renowned violinist, Gil Shaham.
Program:
Charles Ives, Variations on “America”
Henry Dehlinger, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (World Premiere)
INTERMISSION
Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
The long-awaited world premier of Henry Dehlinger’s setting of T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is finally here! Written expressly for the voice of soprano, Danielle Talamantes, Prufrock embodies a modern musical language that makes use of eclecticism while also suggesting the familiar symphonic American vernacular of 20th century composers like Howard Hanson, Samuel Barber, and Leonard Bernstein.
The evening also features world-renowned violinist, Gil Shaham.
Program:
Charles Ives, Variations on “America”
Henry Dehlinger, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (World Premiere)
INTERMISSION
Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
Postponed from April, 2020, the world premier of Henry Dehlinger’s rhapsody for soprano and symphonic orchestra set to T.S. Eliot’s iconic The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock will, at long last, have it’s premier next…
You can view the concert on the Nat Phil YouTube channel for free through May 29! Bravi tutti but especially composer, Henry Dehlinger for writing such a stunner of a duet!…
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