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SUMMARY:Summer Nights
LOCATION:Michelle's Pianos\, 600 SE Stark Street
DESCRIPTION:Portland Mezzo-Soprano & Composer Dr. Lisa Neher launches Paci
 fic Art Song (pacificartsong.com)\, a concert series dedicated to Western 
 Classical Art Song\, with a program titled Summer Nights. A celebration of
  French song\, the program transports audiences to the era of intimate sal
 ons\, where friends gathered in living rooms to enjoy music shared up clos
 e. The centerpiece of the program\, Hector Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été
  (Summer Nights)\, explores longing\, loss\, and love across five songs th
 at set vibrant poetry with closely interwoven parts for the voice and the 
 piano. The work is the first major song cycle written by a French composer
 . Complimenting Berlioz’s groundbreaking piece are masterworks by Paulin
 e Viardot and protégé Lili Boulanger\, brilliant French women composers 
 long marginalized due to their gender.Completing the program are two world
  premieres composed by Neher herself. Chanson d’automne (Song of Autumn)
  and L’heure du berger (The Hour of the Shepherd) set poetry of Paul Ver
 laine. Dubbed “Prince of Poets” by his peers\, Verlaine’s name is sy
 nonymous with French song. Why art song now? “We’re living in an era o
 f 15 second Tiktok videos and the constant dopamine rush of notifications 
 on our devices\,” says Neher. “But what we’re all longing for is som
 ething real and embodied. This concert is an invitation to slow down and c
 onnect with your senses\, to hear and see and feel the music in a communit
 y.” PERFORMERSDr. Lisa Neher\, mezzo-soprano & composerHannah Early\, pi
 anoS\n\nhttps://www.allclassical.org/event-archive/summer-nights/
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.allclassical.org/event-archive/summer-nights/
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