[Sonya
Headlam]
Soprano
Sonya Headlam has frequently collaborated with One World Symphony
since 2006:
“Highlight
of the 2010-2011 Season include her critically acclaimed performance
of Sibelius with One World Symphony, in addition to her Christmas
concert with pianist Djordje Nesic, which was webcast live from
Trinity Church Wall Street. In 2010 Sonya made her Carnegie Hall
debut as the soprano soloist in Vaughan Williams' Dona
Nobis Pacem and
Haydn's Paukenmesse
with
Distinguished Concerts International New York.”
Sonya
Headlam sang the Sibelius song Tryst
in
a concert called “Nordic Lights” on March 4 and 6. Operaticus.com
said: “Ms. Headlam was the most communicative performer of the four
sopranos, and seemingly the most at ease with the challenge of
singing in Swedish.”
Sung Jin Hong, Artistic Director and Conductor
One
World Symphony Vocal Artists
Benjamin Britten:
Scenes and Sea Interludes, Peter Grimes (1945)
Charles
Ives: Central Park in the Dark (1906)
Antonín
Dvořák: Song to the Moon, Rusalka (1901)
Louis
Spohr: Erlkönig*
Franz Schubert: Nacht und
Träume*
Robert Schumann: Mondnacht*
*World premiere
song cycle for vocalists and symphony by Sung Jin Hong
Two
Performances:
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Monday, January 23,
2012 (Lunar New Year)
8:00 p.m.
Holy
Apostles Church
296 Ninth Avenue at West 28th Street
Manhattan
$30
Students/Seniors with ID
$40 General
“What is it about
the moon? She evokes peace and passion, fear and fascination.
Schubert’s and Schumann’s songs ring with the deep emotions
moonlight can stir in those still hours when dreams reign. It is in
those hours that, sitting on a bench in Central
Park in the Dark,
Ives conjures the abstracted sounds of a sleepless pulsing
metropolis. In Dvořák’s Rusalka,
the water sprite begs the silver moon to tell the object of her
obsession of her love for him. Spohr’s Erlkönig
paints Goethe’s tale of a father and son on their haunted ride
through a dark and windy night, as they struggle to outrun the
supernatural forces that pursue them. The moon burns cold in the deep
swells of the dark foreboding sea in Britten’s Sea Interludes from
Peter
Grimes.
Some nights the silver lady mocks us as we wearily battle insomnia.
Other nights she stares over her shoulder as we wake in a cold sweat
from our own sinister nightmares.
Celebrate the
Lunar New Year (January 23) by joining One World Symphony for
Moonlight!”
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