Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Jody Karin Applebaum, soprano

Consistently hailed for their captivating performances, enormous technique, and sly wit!

Tuesday • October 12, 2004 • 8:00 pm
Settlement Music School
416 Queen Street, Philadelphia (parking available)

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Lullabies soothe us to sleep. Songs are our waking dreams. Music may mimic gentle rest, nightmare, insomnia, or the perennial metaphor of sleep, death!

In a special one-night only performance-lecture designed especially for this year's Penn Humanities Forum on Sleep and Dreams, the internationally acclaimed duo of soprano Jody Karin Applebaum and pianist Marc-André Hamelin enfold us in musical sleep and dreams.

'Invite sweet sleep to yourself'* in the works of Handel, Fauré, Poulenc, Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, Cole Porter, De Falla, and many others!

Called "legendary" and a "super virtuoso," Marc-André Hamelin is considered one of the singular pianistic talents of his generation. Well established in North America and Europe with numerous recitals around the globe, he regularly appears in the Wigmore Hall Masterconcert Series, the International Piano Series at London's South Bank Centre, and the Herkulessall in Munich.

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*From Maikov's Cradle Song.

PROGRAM
Lullaby and Goodnight
Wiegenlied, Johannes Brahms
Mariä Wiegenlied, Max Reger
Berceuse, Frédéric Chopin
Nana, Manuel De Falla
Cradle Song, Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky
Goodnight, My Someone (The Music Man),
Meredith Wilson

Sleeping and Not Sleeping
Kind im Einschlummern (A Child Goes to Sleep) , Robert Schumann
Rest, Sweet Nymphs, Peter Warlock
Oh, quand je dors! Franz Liszt
Le Sommeil, Francis Poulenc
Oh Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me? George Frederick Handel
Sleeplessness, Nikolai Medtner

Intermission

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Ich träume jede Nacht von Elisabeth! Friedrich Hollaender
Youkali, Kurt Weill
Après un Rêve, Gabriel Fauré
Seit ich ihn gesehen, Robert Schumann
Ich kann’s nicht fassen nicht glauben, Robert Schumann
Nacht und Träume, Franz Schubert
Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht, Johannes Brahms
Es träumte mir, Johannes Brahms
Dream Dancing, Cole Porter
Susan’s Dream (Love Life), Kurt Weill

Tickets
$15, general admission
$8, students (outside Penn)
Free, Penn community, with ID (tickets required)

Call 215.898.3900 for tickets. Seating limited. Call early!

Special buses provided from Penn campus to event and back again following performance. Seating limited. To reserve seat on bus, call 215.572.8280.
Driving from outside the city? Park your car at Penn and join us on the bus. We'll get you back to campus after the concert and reception!

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Review

Hamelin's recording of the complete Godowsky Studies on Chopin’s Études won the 2000 Gramophone Instrumental Award and has been hailed as "mind-boggling." Godowsky's 53 studies are considered some of the most difficult piano pieces ever written.

Montreal born, Hamelin lives in Philadelphia with his wife, soprano Jody Karin Applebaum, who is renowned for her great dramatic power, sly wit, sophistication, and intimacy. Her cabaret, oratorio, and concert work has taken her all over the world as a soloist in many of the great choral and orchestral masterworks. When not on tour, Ms. Applebaum maintains a full roster of private students and gives frequent master classes and lecture–recitals.