In Episode 7, series host, Allison Charney recaps and celebrates the Season of Hope series! Join us as we celebrate 10,000 views!

MUSICAL SELECTIONS:

Allison Charney and Benjamin Loeb

Over the Rainbow/Harold Arlen

Allison Charney, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, and Craig Ketter

Morgen/Richard Strauss

The ARK Trio

DIE Forelle/Michael Ching

Prairie Dawn/Kim D. Sherman

Allison Charney, Peter Seidenberg, and Craig Ketter

Kaddish/Marianna Rosett

Allison Charney, Eriko Sato, and David Oei

Wiegenlied/Johannes Brahms

Allison Charney, Layna Chianakas, Yunah Lee, Indira Mahajan, Krysty Swann, Maria Zifchak, Soo Bae, and Donna Weng Friedman

The March of the Women/Ethyl Smyth

Allison Charney and Craig Ketter

Zueignung/Richard Strauss

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In Episode 6, series host, soprano Allison Charney will be joined by pianist Donna Weng Friedman who will discuss and perform works by Clara Schumann, Florence Price, Chopin, and living composer Beata Moon. In conjunction with HER/MUSIC;HER/STORY, co-founded by Weng Friedman and Charney, they will also pre-form Ethel Smyth‘s anthem of the Suffrage movement – The March of the Women – in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment and the 55th anniversary of the signing in to law of The Voting Rights Act of 1965. For this special presentation, they will be joined by cellist Soo Bae, sopranos Yunah Lee and Indira Mahajan, and mezzo-sopranos Layna Chiankas, Krysty Swann, and Maria Zifchak.

MUSICAL SELECTIONS:

Er ist gekommen/Clara Schumann
Prelude/Beata Moon
Waltz in C# minor, op. 64, no. 2/Frédéric Chopin
Night/Florence Price
The March of the Women/Ethel Smyth
Zueignung/Richard Strauss (with Craig Ketter, piano)

PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope is featured among the following Centennial Celebrations! Visit the sites below for even more events and ways to celebrate!
https://www.womensvote100.org/
https://www.womenshistory.org/
https://www.2020centennial.org/
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library
https://wappp.hks.harvard.edu/celebrating-100th-anniversary-womens-suffrage-united-states
https://womensvote100.jhu.edu/

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The husband-wife duo of violinist Eriko Sato and pianist David Oei join series host, soprano Allison Charney in Episode 5 of Season of Hope, discussing and performing works by Dvorak, Brahms, Korngold and living composer Ionel Petroi, while exploring the theme of hope.

MUSICAL SELECTIONS:

Eriko Sato and David Oei:
March & Garden Scene – both from Much Ado About Nothing for violin and piano/Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Eriko Sato and David Oei with Allison Charney:
Songs My Mother Taught Me/Dvorak
Wigenlied (Lullaby)/Brahms

Eriko Sato and David Oei:
Gipsy Sadness for violin and piano/Ionel Petroi
Gipsy Djumbus/Ionel Petroi

Allison Charney with Craig Ketter:
Zuiegnung/R. Strauss

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