CrossCURRENT 2014

March 7 @ 7 pm

Casa Italiana @ NYU

24 W. 12th Street 
(between 5th and 6th Ave.)

7:00 pm

Surge and undertow: 
contemporary/traditional vocal music.

Tickets $20 in advance. 
Brown Paper Tickets.

Works by Thomas Deneuville, Michael Dutka, David Gilfix, Jake Heggie and Marjorie Rusche; and by Handel, Mozart, Benjamin Britten and Elsa Sangiacomo Respighi.

Performed by Miran Robarts and Isabella Florin, sopranos; Heather Gerban, mezzo-soprano, Raymond Storms, countertenor,  Leslie Tay, tenor, and Mario Diaz-Moresco, baritone. Michael Fennelly, cello and piano.

Miran Robarts, soprano

Isabella Florin, soprano

"I never saw a moor.                                  "Nel foco di primavera

I never saw the sea.                                   gitta gl'invernali abbigliamenti"  

Yet I know how heather looks                     ('Into the fire of spring          

and what a wave must be."                         throw away your winter garments')  

poem by Emily Dickinson                                              poem by Omar Khayam  

set by Michael Dutka                                                     set by Elsa Sangiacomo Respighi

Heather Gerban, mezzo-soprano

Raymond Storms, countertenor

"Standing up or sitting down                        "Forgive me. They were delicious --

little matters, or what gown..."                      so sweet and so cold."    

poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay                                   poem by William Carlos Williams

set by Thomas Deneuville                                               set by David Gilfix

Leslie Tay, tenor

"Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

buried all of his libretti

Thought the matter over

Then went and dug them up again."

poem by Dorothy Parker

set by Marjorie Rusche

        

Mario Diaz-Moresco, baritone
"Tu sei il cor di questo core"
('You are the heart of my heart')
text by Nicola Francesco Haym
set by G.F. Handel