Songs at Six: Copland/Boulanger
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About this event:
- Category:
- Classical Music | Featured | Vocal
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Date, time and location:
- , 6pm in Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
Led by Dr. Bretton Brown.
Nadia Boulanger, a titan of twentieth-century music, taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the modern age, including Quincy Jones, Astor Piazzolla, and Philip Glass. This concert celebrates her own songs alongside the music of one of her most significant pupils, Aaron Copland.
Free, no tickets required
Programme & Performers
Traditional (arranged by Aaron Copland) The Boatmen’s Dance
No 1 from Old American Songs I
Nadia Boulanger Chanson
Copland Pastorale
Boulanger C’était en juin
No 5 from Les heures claires
Copland My heart is in the east
Boulanger O schwöre nicht
Boulanger Allons voir sur le Lac d’argent
Copland A Summer Vacation
Boulanger La Mer
Miranda Kettlewell mezzo-soprano
Niraali Patel soprano
Yixu Zhao soprano
Annabel Bigland soprano
Tokio Ueno baritone
Edison Zhou piano
Zixin Chen piano
Traditional (arranged by Copland) The Dodger
No 2 from Old American Songs I
Boulanger S’il arrive jamais
No 8 from Les heures claires
Copland Old Poem
Boulanger Versailles
Boulanger Ach die Augen sind es wieder
Boulanger Le Couteau
Copland Alone
Traditional (arranged by Copland) Long time ago
No 3 from Old American Songs I
Traditional (arranged by Copland) The Golden Willow Tree
No 3 from Old American Songs II
Tokio Ueno baritone
Annabel Bigland soprano
Yixu Zhao soprano
Miranda Kettlewell mezzo-soprano
Zixin Chen piano
Junyan Cai piano
Copland The Chariot
No 12 from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Traditional (arranged by Copland) Simple Gifts
No 4 from Old American Songs I
Copland I’ve heard an organ talk sometimes
No 10 from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Boulanger Extase
Copland The Little Horses
No 1 from Old American Songs II
Boulanger Soir d’hiver
Boulanger Cantique
Yixu Zhao soprano
Miranda Kettlewell mezzo-soprano
Tokio Ueno baritone
Niraali Patel soprano
Annabel Bigland soprano
Xiaoman Zhong piano
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
