Grammy Award–winning baritone Will Liverman and Grammy-nominated pianist Myra Huang return for a powerful program that includes American composer Robert Owens’s stirring song cycle Mortal Storm, which features settings of works by the renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, and Mahler’s famous Songs of a Wayfarer, a deeply moving collection that evokes the anguish of lost love. 

POULENC Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire (1931)

MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) (1883-85) 

RAVEL Histoires naturelles (1906)

OWENS Mortal Storm: Five Songs based on poems of Langston Hughes, Op. 29 (1969)  

Approximate length: 1 hour and 10 minutes 

Generously sponsored by the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation in memory of Edgar Foster Daniels

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