Lied Center program #7 by Lied Center of Kansas

CONTENTS DATE

EVENT

PAGE

APR 3

Samuel Ramey: An Intimate Evening of Music & Storytelling

APR 9

ZOFO–one piano, four hands

APR 17

Candid Camera’s LOL Tour with Peter Funt

APR 22

BEAUTIFUL–The Carole King Musical

APR 26

Sybarite5, innovative string quintet

MAY 14

Beatrice Rana, piano

These events are sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.

Please be mindful of the following in the Auditorium and the Pavilion:

• Please silence cellular phones and electronic devices. • No cameras or recording devices. • Refreshments purchased from KU Memorial Unions at concessions are permitted. No outside food or drinks.

Page 2

Friday

APR 3 7:30 pm

Samuel Ramey:

An Intimate Evening of Music & Storytelling World-renowned operatic bass-baritone

Sponsored by

Jeff and Mary Weinberg are pleased to support performing arts experiences in our community and help bring worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;class artists, like Samuel Ramey, to the Lied Center stage.

Page 3

APR 3 | Samuel Ramey

PROGRAM Samuel Ramey, bass Warren Jones, piano Musical selections for the evening will be chosen from the following list and announced from the stage. Jerome Kern: “Ol’ Man River” (Showboat) Charles Ives: “Charlie Rutlage” Aaron Copland: “The Dodger” Cole Porter: “Don’t Fence Me In” Franz Schubert: “Der Atlas” Charles Ives: “The Circus Band” Cole Porter: “The Tale of the Oyster” Franz Schubert: “Der Doppelgänger” Cole Porter: “Embraceable You” Carlisle Floyd: “Blitch’s Prayer of Forgiveness” (Susannah) Charles Gounod: “Serenade” (Faust) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Madamina! Il catalogo e questo” (Don Giovanni) Igor Stravinsky: “I burn! I freeze!” (The Rake’s Progress) Mitch Leigh: “The Impossible Dream” (The Man of La Mancha) Arrigo Boito: “Ecco il Mondo” (Mefistofele)

There will be a 20-minute intermission during the program. Program is subject to change. Exclusive Management: Opus 3 Artists 470 Park Avenue South 9th Floor North New York NY 10016 www.opus3artists.com

APR 3 | Samuel Ramey

Page 4

SAMUEL RAMEY For almost three decades, Samuel Ramey has reigned as one of the music world’s foremost interpreters of bass and bass-baritone operatic and concert repertoire. Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust has become his most-performed role, with over 200 performances in more than twenty productions. He is equally well-known in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world for his performances of Boito’s Mefistofele, including over 70 performances in the Robert Carsen production of this work specifically created for Mr. Ramey, Méphistophélès in Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust, Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, and the tour-de-force of all four villains in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. He presented a sold-out concert at Avery Fisher Hall (David Geffen Hall) entitled A Date with the Devil, which was also presented in Munich’s Gasteig Concert Hall and was recorded live by Naxos Records. Other opera roles of Mr. Ramey include Verdi’s Attila, Zaccaria in Nabucco, King Phillip II and the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo, Fiesca in Simon Boccanegra, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Olin Blitch in Floyd’s Susannah, Rossini’s Maometto II, the title role in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Claudius in Thomas’s Hamlet, Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca, Claggart in Britten’s Billy Budd, and Massenet’s Don Quichotte. He has appeared on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Opéra de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Arena di Verona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Zürich Opera, Teatro la Fenice, Teatro Colon and Dutch National Opera. In concert, he has performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, La Scala Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Ramey has worked with every major conductor, including James Conlon, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Bernstein, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Julius Rudel, Sir Georg Solti and Herbert von Karajan. Samuel Ramey holds the distinction of being the most recorded bass in history. His more than 80 recordings include complete operas, recordings of arias, symphonic works, solo recital programs and popular crossover albums on every major label. His recordings have garnered many awards, including three Grammy Awards, Gran Prix du Disc Awards and “Best of the Year” citations from journals including Stereo Review and Opera News. He has also been featured frequently on television in appearances with Live from the Met and Live from Lincoln Center as well as other productions taped for PBS. A native of Colby, Kansas, Mr. Ramey was active in music throughout high school and college. In 1995, he was named “Kansan of the Year,” and in 1998 the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the rank of Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters. He is currently a distinguished professor of opera at Wichita State University.

Page 5

APR 3 | Samuel Ramey

Warren Jones, pianist Warren Jones enjoys a notably eclectic career that has taken him to virtually every corner of the musical world. He performs with some of today’s best-known artists, such as Stephanie Blythe, Tamara Wilson, Jamie Barton and Anthony Dean Griffey, and he is the principal pianist for the exciting California-based chamber music ensemble Camerata Pacifica. In the past, he has partnered with such great performers as Marilyn Horne, Håkan Hagegård, Kathleen Battle, Samuel Ramey, Christine Brewer, Barbara Bonney, Carol Vaness, Judith Blegen, Salvatore Licitra, Tatiana Troyanos, Thomas Hampson, James Morris and Martti Talvela, and he has appeared in concerts with both the Juilliard String Quartet and the Borromeo String Quartet. Mr. Jones is a longtime faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music and a former faculty member at the Music Academy of the West, and he recently finished an appointment as artist-in-residence in music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. In 2017, he was invited by the National Association of Teachers of Singing to be the inaugural Master Teacher in their Intern Program for young collaborative pianists at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto; and, later in that year, he served as artist-in-residence in opera at the New England Conservatory and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Jones has received the Achievement Award from the Music Teachers National Association of America, their highest honor, and has been selected as Collaborative Pianist of the Year by the publication Musical America. In the summer of 2018, he inaugurated an innovative vocal workshop program at the Manchester Music Festival in Vermont for young singers and pianists. In 2019, his schedule also included a residency at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he taught and performed alongside members of the Takács Quartet. In May 2019, Jones joined the jury of the prestigious first China International Piano Competition in Beijing. As an invited guest at the White House, Mr. Jones has performed for state dinners in honor of the leaders of Canada, Russia and Italy; and three times he has been the guest of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court for musical afternoons in the East Conference Room at the Court. As a musical jurist, he has participated in judging the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the Montreal International Vocal Competition, the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions and the Naumberg Awards. A graduate of both New England Conservatory and San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), Jones was honored with the Doctor of Music degree from SFCM, and he was recently selected as a faculty member of the Board of Trustees at MSM. His discography contains 31 recordings on every major label in a wide range of classical, romantic and contemporary repertory. His conducting appearances are similarly varied: he has led sold-out, critically acclaimed performances of Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz, Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Mozart’s Die Zauberfloete and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. In 2014, he conducted the world premiere of a new operatic version of A Christmas Carol at the Houston Grand Opera.

Page 6

Thursday

APR 9 7:30 pm

Pavilion

Sponsored by

ZOFO One piano, four hands

Dave and Gunda Hiebert are pleased to sponsor tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance.

Page 7

APR 9 | ZOFO

ZOFO

Eva-Maria Zimmermann Keisuke Nakagoshi

PROGRAM Terry Riley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G-Song (1980), arranged by ZOFO, 2014 (b.1935) Nicholas Pavkovic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chimaera (2012) (b.1963) Gabriela Lena Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haillí Lírico (Lyric Prayer), world premiere (b.1972) Commissioned by the Lied Center of Kansas in honor of Dave and Gunda Hiebert Erberk Eryılmaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tupan and Davul (2019), commissioned by ZOFO (b.1989)

20-Minute Intermission Urmas Sisask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Milky Way (1990) (b.1960) Gustav Holst. . . . . . . . . . . . from The Planets, Op. 32 (1914-1916), arranged by ZOFO, 2013 (1874-1934) Mars, the Bringer of War Venus, the Bringer of Peace Mercury, the Winged Messenger Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Program is subject to change.

APR 9 | ZOFO

Page 8

ZOFO Since joining forces as a professional duo in 2009, internationally acclaimed solo pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi—ZOFO— have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for one-piano-four-hands. This Grammy-nominated, prize-winning Steinway Artist Ensemble—one of only a handful of duos worldwide devoted exclusively to piano duets—is blazing a bold new path for piano four-hands by focusing on 20th- and 21st-century repertoire and by commissioning new works from noted composers each year. ZOFO, which is shorthand for 20-finger orchestra (ZO=20 and FO=finger orchestra), also performs heart-pumping duet arrangements of famous orchestral pieces such as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, exploring the realms in which many composers first experienced their symphonic visions. ZOFO believes that the piano duet is the most intimate form of chamber music, with two musicians playing individual parts on one instrument in a complex, often beautiful, choreography of four hands. The duo’s concert programs often incorporate a unifying theme that connects the works both musically and historically. Several of these thematic programs have been released worldwide as critically acclaimed commercial CDs under their multi-disc recording contract with Grammy Award-winning label Sono Luminus Records. Their 2013 debut CD, Mind Meld, was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance and Producer of the Year. ZOFO made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2010, the same year they won the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition. They were the only piano duo to be elevated to the final round in the 2011 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. The group has performed at a wide variety of concert venues across North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, including intimate and informal spaces; colleges and universities; and major concert venues, such as the Tokyo Opera Recital Hall, the Sydney City Recital Hall and Tonhalle Zurich. ZOFO has participated at numerous festivals, including Murten Classics in Switzerland, the Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho, the Music on the Heights International Chamber Music Festival in Poland and the Kusatsu Summer International Academy and Festival in Japan.

Page 9

APR 9 | ZOFO

Committed to contemporary music, ZOFO has commissioned more than 30 works by noted composers, including Pulitzer Prize-winner William Bolcom, Gabriela Lena Frank, Terry Riley, Akira Nishimura, Carl Vine, Pawel Mykietyn, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Pablo Ortiz and many others. For their cutting-edge project ZOFOMOMA – New Pictures at an Exhibition, the duo commissioned new works from 15 top composers around the globe and requested each to select a painting representative of his or her culture as a springboard to the creative process. With this project, ZOFO was invited to a nine-concert Australia tour presented by Musica Viva in spring 2019. Their newest projects are two commissions of one-piano four-hands concertos by Australian composer Carl Vine and Argentinian American composer Pablo Ortiz. ZOFO’s innovative and inspired performances have garnered national media attention, and they have been featured on American Public Media’s Performance Today, WFMT Chicago’s Impromptu, KING-FM’s Second Inversion and Australia’s ABC Radio National’s The Art Show, among many others.

Gabriela Lena Frank, composer Currently serving as composer-in-residence with The Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and included in the Washington Post’s list of the 35 most significant women composers in history (August 2017), composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank has always placed identity at the center of her music. Born in Berkeley, California in 1972 to a mother of mixed Peruvian/Chinese ancestry and a father of Lithuanian/Jewish descent, she explores her multicultural heritage through her compositions. Winner of a Latin Grammy Award and nominated for Grammys as both composer and pianist, Ms. Frank also holds a Guggenheim Fellowship and a USA Artist Fellowship, given each year to 50 of the country’s finest artists. Her work has been described as “crafted with unself-conscious mastery” (Washington Post), “brilliantly effective” (The New York Times), “a knockout” (Chicago Tribune) and “glorious” (Los Angeles Times).

Page 10

Friday

APR 17 7:00 pm

Candid Cameraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LOL Tour with Peter Funt

Page 11

APR 17 | Candid Camera’s LOL Tour with Peter Funt

There will be a 20-minute intermission during this event. Candid Camera’s LOL Tour with Peter Funt is pleasing audiences nationwide. Peter’s hilarious stage comedy is blended with clips, quips and behind-the-scenes tales from the show’s funniest moments. Candid Camera holds a unique place in entertainment history as the only show to have produced new episodes in each of the last eight decades, from Allen Funt’s debut in 1948 through Peter’s acclaimed run on TV Land. Peter’s latest show was a “Top Pick” in People Magazine and praised by The New York Times. New production is now underway for late 2020. The LOL stage show incorporates the best Candid Camera clips in a fast-paced, laugh-filled romp through the decades. Peter’s topical humor is blended with audience participation and special surprises to make the show a great night of fun. Peter joined his dad as co-host and then took over as host in the 90s. Over his own four decades, Peter has hosted more than 200 network episodes. He recently completed a full-length documentary about his dad, titled Mister Candid Camera. The film will be shown on streaming services later this year. Peter appears on numerous talk shows, authored the book Cautiously Optimistic and writes nationally syndicated newspaper columns for USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in central California, where he’s an avid golfer, baseball player and people-watcher. For more about Candid Camera, visit www.CandidCamera.com.

Page 12

Wednesday

APR 22 7:30 pm

Sponsored by

The World Company is pleased to sponsor this presentation of BEAUTIFUL–The Carole King Musical. As a part of the Lawrence community for more than 100 years, our company strives to enhance our community by supporting the arts, providing scholarships and supporting numerous philanthropic projects in the place we call “home.”

Page 13