PULLMAN, Wash. – A voice and piano performance, “Dawn to Dusk in Song,” will continue the Faculty Artist Series at Washington State University at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, in Bryan Hall. Series proceeds support the School of Music’s scholarship fund.
A Baroque solo cantata, “The Morning” by Thomas Arne, depicting the awakening of an English village, will open the performance by Julie Wieck, soprano, and Gerald Berthiaume, piano. “Poème d’un jour (Poem of a day),” by Gabriel Faure, will move listeners through the beginning, middle and end of a short love affair.
Alban Berg’s “Sieben Frühe Lieder” will provide sensual evocations of the night while the song cycle “Days and Nights,” written in 1995 by American composer Lori Laitman, will entertain a variety of moods and scenarios ending with “Wild Nights.”
The program will include songs by four Ukrainian composers, which are the foundation for a CD project Wieck and Berthiaume will begin recording this fall.
Tickets will be available in the Bryan Hall lobby a half-hour before the performance. The price is free to WSU students with ID, $10 for adults and $5 for non-WSU students and senior citizens.
Julie Wieck, WSU School of Music, jwieck@wsu.edu, 509 335 4331
Sandra Albers, WSU School of Music, sandra_albers@wsu.edu, 509 335 4148