Saturday, May 12, 2018 / Isabel Bayrakdarian, Soprano and St. Lawrence String Quartet / CAMA's Masterseries at The Lobero Theatre, 8:00 PM
CAMA's Masterseries Presents Isabel Bayrakdarian, Soprano St. Lawrence String Quartet Saturday, May 12, 2018 Lobero Theatre, 8pm Geoff Nuttall, Violin • Owen Dalby, Violin Lesley Robertson, Viola • Christopher Costanza, Cello Ottorino Respighi: Il tramonto (“The Sunset”), P.101 Osvaldo Golijov: Qohelet (2011) for string quartet Songs by Leonard Bernstein, arranged by John Greer: “A Simple Song” (Hymn & Psalm), from MASS “A Julia de Burgos,” from Songfest “A Little Bit in Love,” from Wonderful Town “I Can Cook Too,” from On the Town TANGOS, arranged by Peter Tiefenbach: Carlos Gardel: “Por una Cabeza”; “El Día Que Me Quieras”; “Volver” Astor Piazzolla: “Oblivion”; “Che Tango Che” Gerardo Matos Rodríguez: “La Cumparsita” (string quartet) Kurt Weill: “Youkali (Tango Habanera)” Hans-Otto Borgmann: “Tango Notturno” Farid al-Atrash: “Ya Zahratan Fi Khayali” Arno Babajanian: “Chqnagh Yeraz (Du Indz Hamar)” Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is widely celebrated for her strikingly multihued voice and immense interpretive talent. She is an eagerly anticipated vocalist at major opera houses and concert halls the world over including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, London, Paris, Vienna, Florence and Salzburg. A distinguished fellow of the Music Academy of the West in 1998, she was a winner in the 1997 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the first winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 1998, took the First Prize in the 2000 Placido Domingo Operalia vocal competition, and received both Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee and Diamond Jubilee awards. Her Nonesuch CD of the songs of the Armenian composer Gomidas was nominated for a Grammy® in 2009, and in 2002 she was the featured vocalist on the Grammy®-award winning soundtrack of the blockbuster film The Two Towers from The Lord of The Rings trilogy. Established in Toronto in 1989, the St. Lawrence String Quartet quickly earned acclaim at top international chamber music competitions and was soon playing hundreds of concerts per year worldwide. They have served as ensemble-in-residence at Stanford University since 1998. ||
CAMA's Masterseries Presents
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Soprano
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Lobero Theatre, 8pm
Geoff Nuttall, Violin • Owen Dalby, Violin
Lesley Robertson, Viola • Christopher Costanza, Cello
Ottorino Respighi: Il tramonto (“The Sunset”), P.101
Osvaldo Golijov: Qohelet (2011) for string quartet
Songs by Leonard Bernstein, arranged by John Greer:
“A Simple Song” (Hymn & Psalm), from MASS
“A Julia de Burgos,” from Songfest
“A Little Bit in Love,” from Wonderful Town
“I Can Cook Too,” from On the Town
TANGOS, arranged by Peter Tiefenbach:
Carlos Gardel: “Por una Cabeza”; “El Día Que Me Quieras”; “Volver”
Astor Piazzolla: “Oblivion”; “Che Tango Che”
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez: “La Cumparsita” (string quartet)
Kurt Weill: “Youkali (Tango Habanera)”
Hans-Otto Borgmann: “Tango Notturno”
Farid al-Atrash: “Ya Zahratan Fi Khayali”
Arno Babajanian: “Chqnagh Yeraz (Du Indz Hamar)”
Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is widely celebrated for her strikingly multihued voice and immense interpretive talent. She is an eagerly anticipated vocalist at major opera houses and concert halls the world over including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, London, Paris, Vienna, Florence and Salzburg. A distinguished fellow of the Music Academy of the West in 1998, she was a winner in the 1997 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the first winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 1998, took the First Prize in the 2000 Placido Domingo Operalia vocal competition, and received both Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee and Diamond Jubilee awards. Her Nonesuch CD of the songs of the Armenian composer Gomidas was nominated for a Grammy® in 2009, and in 2002 she was the featured vocalist on the Grammy®-award winning soundtrack of the blockbuster film The Two Towers from The Lord of The Rings trilogy.
Established in Toronto in 1989, the St. Lawrence String Quartet quickly earned acclaim at top international chamber music competitions and was soon playing hundreds of concerts per year worldwide. They have served as ensemble-in-residence at Stanford University since 1998. ||
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Neri gli occhi ma non fulgidi più;<br />
consunte quasi le ciglia dalle lagrime;<br />
le labbra e le gote parevan cose morte tanto<br />
eran bianche;<br />
ed esili le mani e per le erranti vene e le<br />
giunture rossa<br />
del giorno trasparia la luce.<br />
La nuda tomba, che il tuo fral racchiude,<br />
cui notte e giorno un'ombra torment<strong>at</strong>a<br />
abita,<br />
è quanto di te resta, o cara cre<strong>at</strong>ura perduta!<br />
"Ho tal retaggio, che la terra non dà:<br />
calma e silenzio, senza pecc<strong>at</strong>o e senza<br />
passione.<br />
Sia che i morti ritrovino (non mai il sonno!)<br />
ma il riposo,<br />
imperturb<strong>at</strong>i quali appaion,<br />
o vivano, o d'amore nel mar profondo<br />
scendano;<br />
oh! che il mio epitaffio, che il tuo sia: Pace!"<br />
Questo dalle sue labbra l'unico lamento.<br />
Dissolve away in wisdom-working grief;<br />
Her eyes were black <strong>and</strong> lustreless <strong>and</strong> wan:<br />
Her eyelashes were worn away with tears,<br />
Her lips <strong>and</strong> cheeks were like things dead - so<br />
pale;<br />
Her h<strong>and</strong>s were thin, <strong>and</strong> through their<br />
w<strong>and</strong>ering veins<br />
And weak articul<strong>at</strong>ions might be seen<br />
Day's ruddy light. <strong>The</strong> tomb of thy dead self<br />
Which one vexed ghost inhabits, night <strong>and</strong> day,<br />
Is all, lost child, th<strong>at</strong> now remains of thee!<br />
"Inheritor of more than earth can give,<br />
Passionless calm <strong>and</strong> silence unreproved,<br />
Where the dead find, oh, not sleep! but rest,<br />
And are the uncomplaining things they seem,<br />
Or live, a drop in the deep sea of Love;<br />
Oh, th<strong>at</strong> like thine, mine epitaph were - Peace!"<br />
This was the only moan she ever made.<br />
LEONARD BERNSTEIN<br />
“Simple Song,” from MASS<br />
Sing God a simple song:<br />
Lauda, Laudē,<br />
Make it up as you go along<br />
Lauda, Laudē,<br />
Sing like you like to sing.<br />
God loves all simple things,<br />
For God is the simplest of all,<br />
I will sing the Lord a new song<br />
To praise Him, to bless Him, to bless the<br />
Lord.<br />
I will sing His praises while I live<br />
All of my days.<br />
Blessed is the man who loves the Lord,<br />
Blessed is the man who praises Him.<br />
Lauda, Lauda, Laudē,<br />
And walks in His ways.<br />
I will lift up my eyes<br />
To the hills from whence comes my help<br />
I will lift up my voice to the Lord<br />
Singing Lauda, Laudē.<br />
For the Lord is my shade,<br />
Is the shade upon my right h<strong>and</strong>,<br />
And the sun shall not smite me by day<br />
Nor the moon by night.<br />
Blessed is the man who loves the Lord,<br />
Lauda, Lauda, Laudē,<br />
And walks in His ways.<br />
Lauda, Lauda, Laudē,<br />
Lauda, Lauda di da di day,<br />
All of my days.<br />
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