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Princeton University Concerts

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Golda Schultz

Voice

Instrumentalist

Jonathan Ware

Piano

Pianist

Soprano I

Golda Schultz, Soprano Jonathan Ware, Piano

Princeton

United States

Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

Public

Concert

Lieder, Op.12

3 Lieder, Op.7

Am Strande

Lorelei

Der Erlkönig

Down by the Salley Gardens

The Tiger

Cradle Song

The Seal Man

La mer est plus belle

Prière

Élégie

Cantique

This Be Her Verse

Jnanakumar P

Approved

“What if a woman wrote the song?”  This question drives a recital of songs by female composers performed by soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware. Opening with works by Clara Schumann and Emilie Mayer (including her setting of the ballad Erlkönig), this recital weaves stories of women’s experience with fantastic tales of powerful sirens like the Lorelei. The great American-British violist and composer Rebecca Clarke’s arresting William Blake settings offer a woman’s perspective on texts also set by Benjamin Britten. Devotional works from Nadia Boulanger reveal a compositional master in her own right, in addition to her legendary status as pedagogue to innumerable greats including Aaron Copland and Daniel Barenboim. This be Her Verse, a song cycle by poet-librettist Lila Palmer and composer Kathleen Tagg was directly commissioned by the artists to conclude the programme and add an important contribution to the repertory: Songs written by women, about women, highlighting the female experience.

‘This Be Her Verse’ by Golda Schultz and Jonathan Ware [ITW 1]

South African soprano Golda Schultz has been gracing the stage of the world’s greatest opera houses—from the Metropolitan Opera to the Vienna State Opera. Equally at home in leading operatic roles as she is as a soloist with the world’s foremost orchestras and in the most venerated recital halls, she has quickly become a leading voice in a new generation of star singers. For her Princeton University Concerts debut, she brings the extraordinary warmth of her voice to a program hailed as “a love-letter to women in music” exploring themes of love, nature, folklore and belief from a distinctly female perspective. Discussing the program’s curation, she shares: “Emilie Mayer, whose music was never recorded, was a genius on the level with Beethoven, but she was forgotten the day after she died in 1883. Nadia Boulanger became one of the greatest pedagogues with a touch that defined American culture. Even when we forget these women, what they’ve done still remains.”

English

Golda Schultz, Soprano Jonathan Ware, Piano by Schumann, Clara, Mayer, Emilie, Clarke, Rebecca, Boulanger, N., Kathleen Tagg, From (2024/2024), Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, Princeton, United States

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