Recital: Parisian Soirée
Schedule
Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 05:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
St James Episcopal Church, Midvale, UT | Midvale, UT
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This all-French recital explores the richness of mélodie across the 19th and early 20th centuries, where poetry and music are inseparably connected. Featuring Francis Poulenc's modernist masterpiece Banalités, Franz Liszt's inspired settings of Victor Hugo poems, and a full performance of Hector Berlioz's Les nuits d'été. Luminous, melancholic, and dreamlike, this cycle captures a spectrum of emotional states - love, loss, longing, and fleeting beauty - through Berlioz’s vividly evocative musical language. Interspersed through the recital are rarely heard duets by Cécile Chaminade, Ernest Chausson, and Charles-Marie Widor. Together, the program offers a portrait of French vocal music at its most expressive and varied, inviting listeners into an incredible world of color, nuance, and poetic imagination.Featuring:
Mitchell Sturges, Tenor
Seth Kershisnik, Baritone
Emily Williams, Piano
**Free admission & reception to follow!**
**The recital will also be live streamed for those unable to attend in-person**
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