“Poetics of Music”

• Two “melodramas” for reciter and piano
  • Richard Strauss “The Castle By the Sea”,
  • Franz Liszt “Lenore”

• Charles Ives from Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860”   *Before each movement David Rockefeller will read from Ives’s remarkable essays about the Concord writers*
  • Movement 3: “The Alcotts”
  • Mvt. 4 “Thoreau”
• with David Rockefeller, reciter; Kathryn Knight, voice; Joel Sachs, piano