SEJONG CENTER

We believe it is our role and responsibility as contemporary musicians to play the music of the times and pass it on to future generations. Also, we are committed to presenting music composed by currently active composers with a focus on the contemporary music which will become “classical music” in the future.

This concert will focus on songs that combine poetry and music, particularly works by female American writers and composers. The first part will present poems written by renowned poets Emily Dickinson and Sara Teasdale, a Pulitzer Prize winner, while in the second section, music composed by Amy Beach, the first female composer in the United States, and Libby Larsen, a contemporary composer, will be performed.

Profile

Soprano Yoon Ye-ji graduated from Sunhwa Arts Middle and High School and obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal music from Seoul National University. She then obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Catholic University of America, after which she finished the professional performer program at the Manhattan School of Music. As a Young Artist at the Maryland Lyric Opera Company, she played the role of Juliet in the opera, in the 2015-16 season. She participated in the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, a seminar for contemporary classical artists in the United States, as an Amazing Artist Fellow. 

Program

John Duke (1899-1984)

1978(poems by Emily Dickinson)

Good Morning, Midnight

Heart! We will forget him!

Let down the bars, Oh Death

An awful tempest mashed the air

Nobody knows this little Rose

Bee! I'm expecting you!



Simon Sargon (b.1938)

1988(poems by Sara Teasdale)

Let It Be You

Wind Elegy

Barter

Let It Be Forgotten

There Will Be Rest



André Previn (1929-2019)

1999(poems by Emily Dickinson)

As Imperceptibly as Grief

Will There Really Be A Morning?

Good Morning, Midnight





Intermission





Amy Beach (1867-1944)

1900(poems by Robert Browning)

1. The Year's at the Spring

2. Ah, Love, But a Day!

3. I Send My Heart Up To Thee!



Libby Larsen (b.1950)

2001

I. Katherine of Aragon (words by Katherine of Aragon)

II. Anne Boleyn (words by Anne Boleyn)

III. Jane Seymour (words by Jane Seymour)

IV. Anne of Cleves (words by Anne of Cleves)

V. Katherine Howard (words by Katherine Howard)