Music by the Lake

The Wit & the Waif
The Coincidental Lives of Cole Porter & Edith Piaf
Saturday March 24th 2012, 4 pm

Classical soprano Eunice Poulos and pianist Mitchell Vines come back to The LakeHouse, by popular demand, offering us a remarkable music afternoon and - importantly - an opportunity to help support the healing of homeless people at the Trenton Emergency Shelter. The music performance will be followed by a reception.

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About the Performance:
Polar opposites in life as well as in music, Cole Porter and Edith Piaf seemed perfectly suited for a study in contrasts. His music of sophistication and wit against her dark songs of street life and struggle. His wealth and privilege - her poverty and neglect. His life with the 'swells' and her avoidance of them. But as their stories emerged, an eerie number of coincidental, shared experiences began to pile up - too many to be ignored. Very unexpectedly, the contrasts began to blur…

Suggested donations: Your kind donations ($15, more?) will help pay for a nurse for the Homeless at the Rescue Mission of Trenton. Please make checks to "Rescue Mission of Trenton". Receipts for Tax-deduction will be provided at the event.
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From Broadway to Opera: The Journey of Stephen Schwartz
Sunday March 6th 2011, 3:00 pm

Come join us for Stephen Schwartz music, from private themes in his famous broadway shows such as WICKED, GODSPELL, PIPPIN.... to his very first opera, SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON, premiering April/May 2011 in the NY City Opera. SEANCE was developed at the American Opera Projects (AOP), one of the only US companies devoted to new opera. The music event at The LakeHouse is supported by Princeton Friends of the Opera. Lectures & music performance will be followed by a reception.

Lectures

Charles Jarden, AOP's Executive Director: 'The creation of SEANCE'
Carol de Giere, Schwartz biographer: 'The composer's earlier years and their influence on his music choices for SEANCE'

Music performance

Ann Hoyt - Soprano
Tommy Wazelle - Tenor
Scott Rednour - Piano

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Suggested donations: Your kind donations will support the American Opera Projects, HomeFront and The Hoboken Shelter for Homeless (MusiCare program).
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The Birth of A Music Festival
Sunday May 2nd, 3:00 pm

Join Richard Tang Yuk, Artistic Director of The Princeton Festival, and Artists from the 2010 season for an afternoon of music at The LakeHouse. A lecture describing the creation of the Festival will be accompanied by musical excerpts representing highlights of the rich 2010 program including Opera, Piano and Cello concerts, and more. The musical program and lecture will be followed by a reception.

PROGRAM:

1. Lecture by Richard Tang Yuk: The creation of 2010 Festival
2. Performance by Mezzo-Soprano Rebecca Ringle, lead singer in Handel's Ariodante: excerpts from Ariodante and other operas
3. Concert by Princeton's Youth Orchestra (GPYO)- 13 talented musicians, conducted by Maestro Fernando Raucci: Concerto Grosso by Corelli No 4 in G and Boccherini Cello concerto - First movement
4. Piano performance by Georgiana Rosca's brilliant students:
William Prudhomme: "Aufschwung" from Fantasiestucke Op.12 (R. Schumann); Fairy Tale Op. 20 N. 2, "Campanella" (N. Medtner)
Craig Renoe: Scherzo N.2 in B Flat minor(F.Chopin); Etude Op. 10 N.12 (F.Chopin)
5.Surprise performance....

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Suggested donations: $10 or more, if possible. Your kind donations will support the Festival Artists and The Hoboken Shelter for the Homeless (MusiCare program).
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"Sweet Lovers Love the Spring"
Sunday March 21, 2010, 4:00 pm

Come share Spring Fever at The LakeHouse with music of Love and Nature's re-birth, brought to us by the Chamber Chorus of Princeton Pro Musica, conducted by Founder and Music Director Frances Fowler Slade.

Twenty wonderful singers specializing in a cappella music - selected from the 100-voice symphonic chorus - will perform songs from the 16th to the 21st century. Program includes: "It was a lover and his lass" by Thomas Morley; Clement Janequin's descriptive Chant des Oyseaux; part songs by Mendelssohn and Brahms; Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs; and English and American folk songs. Reception will follow.

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Suggested donations: $10 or more, if possible. Your kind donations will support The Hoboken Shelter for the Homeless (MusiCare program).
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The Letter - New Opera by Paul Moravec
Sunday May 17, 2009, 3:00 pm

Come share an afternoon at The LakeHouse with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Paul Moravec, who will discuss the creation of his first opera, The Letter (to be premiered this summer in Santa Fe, for details see link below*). Excerpts from the opera will be performed by Rosalie Sullivan, mezzo-soprano, and Kelly Nicholas Markgraf, baritone. The lecture and music performance will be followed by a reception.

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Suggested donations: $10, $20 or more, if possible. Your kind donations will support Princeton Friends of Opera and The Hoboken Shelter for the Homeless (MusiCare program).
http://www.santafeopera.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=2787

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La Vie en Rose!
Wed, April 22, 2009, 7:00pm

80 Music Lovers came to the Lakehouse on April 22nd to share the magic of Edith Piaf’s music, brought to us by the classical soprano Eunice Poulos, and pianist Mitchell Vines. Reviewers of their recent, sold-out performance at the Merkin Concert Hall, NYC (Dec, 08, see link below)* wrote that the performance was so “marvelous” and “impossible to resist” that ....“the whole crowd was just as caught up in the drama and emotion of the songs”….

The program included concert with narration, sing-along and discussions, followed by a reception. -- This event continues our MusiCare tradition: your kind donations go to support The Hoboken Shelter for the Homeless.

PROGRAM: Eunice Poulos, Soprano; Mitchell Vines, piano
Menilmontant ………….Words & Music Charles Trenet
Bravo Pour Le Clown...Words Henri Contet Music Louiguy
Marie La Francaise….. Words Jacques Larue Music M. Phillippe Gerard
L'Accordeoniste ……...Words & Music Michel Emer
La Mer ...........................Words & Music Charles Trenet
Le Soleil.........................Words & Music Charles Trenet
Toreador........................Words Jean Cocteau Music Francis Poulenc
La Vie en Rose..............Words Edith Piaf Music Louiguy
Padam...Padam.............Words Henri Contet Music Norbert Glanzberg
MILORD…………………Words Henri Contet Music Marguerite Monnot
La Foule.........................Words Michel Rivgauche Music Angel Cabral http://dev.kaufman-center.net/merkin-concert-hall/event/la-mome-piaf

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From Chopin to Rag-Time Music
February 11th, 2009

The musical performance, developed by members of the MUSIC CLUB
of PRINCETON, will be accompanied by discussions and followed by a
reception. Donations supportThe Hoboken Shelter for the Homeless

PROGRAM:
Schubert Sonata in A Major 664 op.120 ..................... Noriko Schneiderman, PianoLe Hoiby Songs..............................Robert Bullington, Baritone; Arthur Wilson, PianoBach Duet No1 E Minor;Brown Lunette......Barbara Williams&Lauren Zavrunov, FlutesMozart Fantasia D minor; Chopin Etueds; Rag-time music....Larisa Migachyov, Piano
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Opera On Tap
Sunday, November 9, 2008

The charismatic musicians of OPERA ON TAP performed songs written by composers taking part in AOP's Composers and the Voice program, including Clint Borzoni, Gregory Spears, Andrew Stanisland, Jack Perla, Kristen Kuster and Ray Lustig. Interspersed with these fresh sparkling songs will be ones written by those better known old Opera Masters (eg excerpts from Cosi Fan Tutte, The Magic Flute, Carlysle Floyd's Susanna, and Nabucco among others..). The performance will be accompanied by a lecture and followed by a reception.
Performers:
Singers: Anne Ricci, Jessica Miller-Rauch, Tim Hill , Krista Wozniak and Matthew Curran
Pianist: Jennifer Hoppeseda
Speakers: Anne Ricci and Jessica Miller-Rauch (OOT), Charles Jarden (AOP).
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