PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope

In Episode 7, series host, Allison Charney recaps and celebrates the Season of Hope series! Join us as we celebrate 10,000 views!

MUSICAL SELECTIONS:

Allison Charney and Benjamin Loeb

Over the Rainbow/Harold Arlen

Allison Charney, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, and Craig Ketter

Morgen/Richard Strauss

The ARK Trio

DIE Forelle/Michael Ching

Prairie Dawn/Kim D. Sherman

Allison Charney, Peter Seidenberg, and Craig Ketter

Kaddish/Marianna Rosett

Allison Charney, Eriko Sato, and David Oei

Wiegenlied/Johannes Brahms

Allison Charney, Layna Chianakas, Yunah Lee, Indira Mahajan, Krysty Swann, Maria Zifchak, Soo Bae, and Donna Weng Friedman

The March of the Women/Ethyl Smyth

Allison Charney and Craig Ketter

Zueignung/Richard Strauss

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In Episode 6, series host, soprano Allison Charney will be joined by pianist Donna Weng Friedman who will discuss and perform works by Clara Schumann, Florence Price, Chopin, and living composer Beata Moon. In conjunction with HER/MUSIC;HER/STORY, co-founded by Weng Friedman and Charney, they will also pre-form Ethel Smyth‘s anthem of the Suffrage movement –  The March of the Women – in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment and the 55th anniversary of the signing in to law of The Voting Rights Act of 1965. For this special presentation, they will be joined by cellist Soo Bae, sopranos Yunah Lee and Indira Mahajan, and mezzo-sopranos Layna Chiankas, Krysty Swann, and Maria Zifchak.

MUSICAL SELECTIONS:

Er ist gekommen/Clara Schumann
Prelude/Beata Moon
Waltz in C# minor, op. 64, no. 2/Frédéric Chopin
Night/Florence Price
The March of the Women/Ethel Smyth
Zueignung/Richard Strauss (with Craig Ketter, piano)

PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope is featured among the following Centennial Celebrations! Visit the sites below for even more events and ways to celebrate!
https://www.womensvote100.org/ 
https://www.womenshistory.org/
https://www.2020centennial.org/
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library
https://wappp.hks.harvard.edu/celebrating-100th-anniversary-womens-suffrage-united-states
https://womensvote100.jhu.edu/

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The husband-wife duo of violinist Eriko Sato and pianist David Oei join series host, soprano Allison Charney in Episode 5 of Season of Hope, discussing and performing works by Dvorak, Brahms, Korngold and living composer Ionel Petroi, while exploring the theme of hope.

MUSICAL SELECTIONS:

Eriko Sato and David Oei:
March & Garden Scene – both from Much Ado About Nothing for violin and piano/Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Eriko Sato and David Oei with Allison Charney:
Songs My Mother Taught Me/Dvorak
Wigenlied (Lullaby)/Brahms

Eriko Sato and David Oei:
Gipsy Sadness for violin and piano/Ionel Petroi
Gipsy Djumbus/Ionel Petroi

Allison Charney with Craig Ketter:
Zuiegnung/R. Strauss

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Cellist Peter Seidenberg joins series host, soprano Allison Charney, in this special hour-long fourth episode of the series, discussing and performing – with pianist Craig Ketter – classics by Bach, Bloch, Verdi, Strauss, living composer Marianna Rosett’s haunting “Kaddish” and a highlight from Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man, while exploring the series’ central theme of hope.

MUSICAL SELECTIONS:

Peter Seidenberg:

Sonata in C-Major, 3rd Mvt./J.S. Bach

Peter Seidenberg with Allison Charney and Craig Ketter:

Morrò ma prima in grazia – from Un Ballo in Maschera /Giuseppe Verdi

Peter Seidenberg with Craig Ketter:

Prayer/Ernst Bloch

Peter Seidenberg with Allison Charney and Craig Ketter:

Marianna Rosett – “Kaddish” from Ghost Brothers

Til There Was You – from The Music Man/Meredith Wilson

Allison Charney and Craig Ketter

Zuiegnung/R. Strauss

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Cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida join series host, and fellow ARK Trio member, soprano Allison Charney, in this third episode of the series, discussing and performing works composed for them by living composer Kim D. Sherman- and exploring the theme of hope – a commodity that feels hard to come by in our current world.

Musical Selections written by Kim D. Sherman
Recipe
Prairie Dawn 
Evening Song 
Transformation Song (from Prairie Diary)
Zueignung/R. Strauss

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Cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida join series host, and fellow ARK Trio member, soprano Allison Charney, in part one of this third episode of the series, discussing and performing works composed for them by living composer Michael Ching – and exploring the theme of hope – a commodity that feels hard to come by in our current world.

Musical Selections:

From Arrangements and Derangements: Interpretations of Schubert by Michael Ching

Sei mir gegrüsst
DIE Forelle!
Rastlose Liebe

preformed by the ARK Trio
Allison Charney soprano
Kajsa William-Olsson, cello
Reiko Uchida, piano

Zueignung - Richard Strauss
preformed by Allison Charney, soprano and Craig Ketter, piano

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      Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins joins series host, soprano Allison Charney, in the second episode of the series, discussing and performing classical works by Bach, Shostakovich and Strauss along with an original adaptation of “Miracle of Miracles” from Fiddler on the Roof, sharing their un-Google-able insights and exploring the theme of hope – a commodity that feels hard to come by in our current world.

MUSICAL SELECTIONS:
C Major Sonata, 4th movement/ JS Bach – preformed by Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
1st Violin Concerto, cadenza/Shostakovich; preformed by Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Morgen/R. Strauss – preformed by Allison Charney, soprano; Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin; Craig Ketter, piano
“Miracle of Miracles” Bock/Eldor/Hall-Tompkins – preformed by Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin; Craig Ketter piano
Zuiegnung/R. Strauss – preformed by Allison Charney, soprano; Craig Ketter, piano


      In its pre-pandemic live incarnation – the innovative classical concert series PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney invited audiences to experience celebrated classical musicians in anticipation of their upcoming engagements on the world’s most prestigious stages. Now that live classical music has all but stopped, thus curtailing any upcoming engagements, acclaimed opera singer and series founder and host, Allison Charney, asks the existential question: If classical musicians are playing music but there’s no one there to hear it, have they really made music?
Her answer: Not without an audience.

Enter PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope!
      In these half-an-hour long episodes, Charney continues the PREFORMANCES mission of blurring the traditional barriers which exist between classical musicians and their audiences by providing an intimate and personal glimpse into top-level artists’ practices along with her signature “un-Google-able” insights – all with a focus on the series’ theme of hope. In addition, Allison and her guests will perform multiple musical selections on each episode. New episodes will air every other Tuesday night and be made available the following morning on the PREFORMANCES website, as well as in podcast form on iTunes and Spotify.
      Throughout its previous eleven seasons, PREFORMANCES With Allison Charney has presented over 100 of the preeminent musicians of our time. Notable appearances include those by New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert, Metropolitan Opera stars William Burden and Maria Zifchak, “Queen of the Flute,” Carol Wincenc, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins of Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof” fame, and concert pianists Joel Fan and Navah Perlman, just to name a few. In addition, the series has presented new classical works by composers such as Michael Ching, Moshe Knoll, Mary Ellen Childs, Russell Platt and Kim D. Sherman. Live concerts typically run an hour and a half, with no intermission.
PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney embraces artists, audiences and music of all backgrounds, ethnicities, orientations and world-views. PREFORMANCES denounces racism and bigotry of any kind. We stand committed to equality, diversity, accessibility and combatting injustice; anything less is unacceptable. 
 

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Pianist Benjamin Loeb, joins series host, soprano Allison Charney in this premiere episode of the series, discussing and performing works by Scott Joplin, Harold Arlen, Kurt Weill and Ernesto Nazareth and exploring the theme of hope - a commodity that feels hard to come by in our current world.

Episode 1: Allison Charney and Benjamin Loeb
Musical Selections:
Gladiolus Rag/Joplin - preformed by Benjamin Loeb, piano
Over the Rainbow/Arlen- preformed by Allison Charney, soprano; Benjamin Loeb, piano
My Ship/Weill - preformed  by Allison Charney, soprano; Benjamin Loeb, piano
Vem ća, branquinha/Nazareth - preformed  by Benjamin Loeb, piano
Zuiegnung/R. Strauss - preformed by Allison Charney, soprano; Craig Ketter, piano

In its pre-pandemic live incarnation - the innovative classical concert series PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney invited audiences to experience celebrated classical musicians in anticipation of their upcoming engagements on the world’s most prestigious stages. Now that live classical music has all but stopped, thus curtailing any upcoming engagements, acclaimed opera singer and series founder and host, Allison Charney, asks the existential question: If classical musicians are playing music but there's no one there to hear it, have they really made music?
Her answer:  Not without an audience.

Enter PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope - the podcast!

In these half-an-hour long episodes, Charney continues the PREFORMANCES mission of blurring the traditional barriers which exist between classical musicians and their audiences by providing an intimate and personal glimpse into top-level artists' practices along with her signature "un-Google-able" insights - all with a focus on the series' theme of hope. In addition, Allison and her guests will perform multiple musical selections on each episode.

Throughout its previous eleven seasons, PREFORMANCES With Allison Charney has presented over 100 of the preeminent musicians of our time. Notable appearances include those by New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert, Metropolitan Opera stars William Burden and Maria Zifchak, “Queen of the Flute,” Carol Wincenc, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins of Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof” fame, and concert pianists Joel Fan and Navah Perlman, just to name a few. In addition, the series has presented new classical works by composers such as Michael Ching, Moshe Knoll, Mary Ellen Childs, Russell Platt and Kim D. Sherman. Live concerts typically run an hour and a half, with no intermission.

PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney embraces artists, audiences and music of all backgrounds, ethnicities, orientations and world-views. PREFORMANCES denounces racism and bigotry of any kind. We stand committed to equality, diversity, accessibility and combatting injustice; anything less is unacceptable.

Support the show