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Informances
An informance is a performance of music that is woven together around dialogue, poems, letters, visuals or other complements to illuminate the message. It may be presented from a stage platform or may be appropriate in more casual venues such as large homes or meeting facilities.
Further details including the artist’s promotional materials, music titles, timing of program, and technical requirements, as they become available, are provided at the link to the individual performer’s page.
Suzanne DuPlantis, mezzo-soprano and Colleagues
"Mozart's Musical Memories"
A highly successful program with readings of letters between Mozart and his immediate family from early childhood to death, interspersed with songs, arias and ensembles.
Lisa Huffaker, mezzo-soprano Roster Affiliate
"Singing the Unsung: Real Women, Real Lives"
Through the art of song, the vivid humanity of some of history's most intriguing women, from Mary, Queen of Scots to Calamity Jane is depicted.
In Libby Larsen's "Songs from Letters", The Wild West goes untamed in poignant missives by Martha Jane Canary Hickock, a.k.a. Calamity Jane, to her daughter, Janey.
"Lieder aus Gedichte von Maria Stuart" is Robert Schumann's introspective settings of poems composed by Mary, Queen of Scots while imprisoned, awaiting her execution.
Lisa Huffaker, mezzo-soprano, Roster Affiliate, with baritone
"Clara and Robert Schumann: Together and Apart"
Explore the fascinating relationship of two of the Nineteenth Century's eminent musicians, through interwoven strands of words and music. Their complicated love affair, expressed by each individually and intimately in diaries and music, also found expression in a joint diary and in music they composed together.
Michael Douglas Jones, bass
"Close Encounters with Composers"
Explore John Metcalf's exotic songs of Gardens with Michael, who is acclaimed for his astounding abilities in 21st century vocal techniques. Sharing his experiences in today's music, he brings new sounds of several composers with blending of jazz and traditional idioms.
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