Solo Songs Karim Al-Zand
A selection of vocal works
Wallis Lucas (soprano), Nicole Percifield (mezzo soprano),
Hillary Tufford (mezzo soprano), Spencer Kryzanowski (piano), Alex Chen (piano)
Two Songs
on texts of Reg Huston
In the Wee Hours
Glimpse through the Fog
Unsentimental Love Songs
I Shall Forget You Presently
poem by Edna St. Vicent Millay
Carrefor
poem by Amy Lowell
Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly
variations for soprano and piano
on texts of Erasmus
The Stranger’s Case Karim Al-Zand
Songs and Chronicles of the Immigrant Experience
Tenor and Piano Quintet
Yanik Gosselin (tenor), Christian Matta (tenor), Andrés Felipe Romero Guzman (violin),
Selen Nsabiyeze (violin), Savannah Seibel (viola), Tsung-Yu Tsai (cello),
Spencer Kryzanowski (piano)
1 Lady of the Harbor/Such an Illumination
2 Who Can Pity My Loneliness?
3 Whither Would You Go?
4 The Stranger Within My Gate
5 They Came from Terror and Tumult
6 Exile
7 When Dawn Comes to the City
8 The Statue of Liberty
(New York Harbour, A.D. 2900)
9 These Strangers in a Foreign World
INTERMISSION
The Book of Tales Karim Al-Zand
two scenes from an opera-in-progress
on the origins of The Thousand and One Nights
Aemilia Moser (soprano), Wallis Lucas (soprano), Mihnea Nitu (baritone),
Evan Lindberg (bass baritone), Connor O'Kane (piano), Alex Chen (piano)
Scene 1, Murjana and Ali Baba
Oh, Sesame, Smallest of Seeds
You and I
Scene 2, Scheherazade & Shahryar
How the Jerboa Got Its Long Tail
A Joint Interest
Libretto and Music by Karim Al-Zand
Comic scene after a short story by O. Henry
Nicole Percifield (mezzo soprano), Hillary Tufford (mezzo soprano), Mihnea Nitu (baritone),
Evan Lindberg (bass baritone), Spencer Kryzanowski (piano), Alex Chen (piano)
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