From Jewish Folk Poetry (1948) by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) (sung in Yiddish). Listen to it here:
“Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado by Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1974) to texts by Antonio Machado (1875-1939). Listen to it here:
"Winter Dream" (2016) by 2016 Guggenheim Fellow Dalit Warshaw (b.1974). Listen to her play it:
"Unter dayne vayse shtern" (2014, from The American Prize award-winning song cycle, Vilna Poems by E4TT composer David Garner (b. 1954), (arr. for soprano and piano, sung in Yiddish). Listen to it:
Ji-Dong-Nuo (2007) for piano by American Academy of Arts and Letters Chinese-American Chen Yi (b. 1953). Watch it here:
Pre-concert composer talk at 7:30 p.m. with Warshaw and Garner
"Dreams of Distant Lands" is made possible in part by a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University. "Dreams of Distant Lands" is sponsored, in part, by a grant from The Ross McKee Foundation.
