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Certificate Recital: Tim Manley, Voice
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Thu, May 9, 2024
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Tim Manley ’24 (Voice) performs a senior recital.
Program
DOWLAND The First Booke of Songes or Ayres
1. My Thoughts Are Wing’d With Hopes
2. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
3. Now, O Now I Needs Must Part
4. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
PURCELL Arise, Ye Subterranean Winds
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang
4. Ständchen
5. Aufenthalt
Prometheus
INTERMISSION
TCHAIKOVSKY None but the Lonely Heart
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The House of Life
2. Silen Noon
3. Love's Minstrels
BACH St. Matthew Passion
64. Am Abend, da es kühle war (Recitative)
65. Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (Aria)
Program Notes
Published in 1597 in London, Dowland’s First Booke of Songes or Ayres was originally composed for soloist and lute. The lyrics are all anonymous, with the exception of My Thoughts Are Wing’d With Hopes, which has words ascribed to George, Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605). The selected songs are all melancholy love songs, typical of Dowland’s style.
Arise, Ye Subterranean Winds is an aria from the musical setting of the play The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. This play is a comedic adaptation by John Dryden and William D’Avenant of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The source of the music had always been attributed to Henry Purcell, but more recently this has been cast into doubt and it is thought that perhaps Purcell’s student, John Weldon, actually composed most of it. The aria is strongly influenced by the da capo arias that were popular in Italy at the time, and makes extensive use of word painting, for example the upward leaps given to the word “arise”.
Prometheus was composed by Franz Schubert in 1819, and is set to a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with the same name. The song is a dramatic, accusatory rant to the gods from Prometheus: a Titan and god of fire in Greek mythology, known for defying the gods by stealing fire from them and giving humanity science and technology.
The song cycle Schwanengesang was one of Schubert’s last compositions, written in 1828. The title means “Swan Song”, and was coined by Schubert’s publisher, likely as a marketing tactic. Ständchen (serenade) and Aufenthalt (dwelling place), both have text set by Ludwig Rellstab.
None but the Lonely Heart, much like Prometheus, uses text written by the influential German writer Goethe. Tchaikovsky’s melancholic composition, set to the Russian translation of the text, is the last in a cycle of six “romances” written for voice and piano in 1869, and it was premiered in Moscow in 1870.
The House of Life was composed by Vaughan Williams in 1903. From the same time as the well known “Songs of Travel”, The House of Life is a collection of six sonnets by the English writer Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The sonnets are all based on the theme of love, and combine natural metaphors with hopeful imagery to project a pure and positive image.
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is an oratorio setting of the gospel of St. Matthew. It is a truly momentous composition, clocking in at about three hours of incredible music. The recitative Am Abend, da es kühle war and its aria Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (purify yourself, my heart) are the last, and perhaps most profound, recit/aria pair of the whole work. At this point in the story, Joseph of Arimathea has collected Jesus’ body from Pilate and is about to bury it in the tomb, laying him to rest while asking his heart to be made pure.
About
Tim Manley is a senior at Princeton University, studying Computer Science with certificates in Music Performance and in Applied and Computational Mathematics. At Princeton he is a former Social Chair of the Glee Club, and a member of the Chamber Choir and the Vocal Consort. He is the current Music Director of the student run vocal consort Decem, and for two years was the music director of the Nassoons. Originally from the U.K., he was a chorister at the Choir of King’s College Cambridge, and then head chorister at Eton College.
Dr. Akiko Hosaki frequently appears with singers, instrumentalists, and conductors in the New York metropolitan area. She has served as accompanist/basso continuo player with choirs and orchestras, such as the American Boychoir, Fuma Sacra, Princeton Pro Musica, Riverside Symphonia, and Garden State Philharmonic, has played with Princeton Symphony. Previously working with several opera companies in Japan, she regularly works with the Princeton Festival Opera, and has worked with the New Jersey State Opera, Opera North, and Opera New Jersey, Delaware Valley Opera Company, and the Castleton Festival. An active chamber musician, she has performed at the World Saxophone Congress XIII, and was the official accompanist at Tubonium2 and 3. She currently serves as the head of vocal staff accompanists and the pianist coordinator at Westminster Choir College, and Senior Choir Director/organist at Hillsborough Reformed Church at Millstone. During summer, she teaches Westminster’s High School Solo Vocal Artist as the music director, and is the assistant to Dalton Baldwin at Académie internationale d’été de Nice, France, as well as at Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She holds degrees from Musashino Academia Musicae, Westminster Choir College, and University of Minnesota.
Kevin Deas has gained international renown as one of America’s leading bass- baritones. He is perhaps most acclaimed for his signature portrayal of the title role in Porgy and Bess, having performed it with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, as well as the most illustrious orchestras on the North American continent, and at the Ravinia, Vail and Saratoga festivals. Kevin Deas’ 2023-24 season includes performances of Mozart’s Requiem with the Vermont Symphony and Mobile Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the North Carolina Symphony, National Cathedral, Houston Symphony, and the NAC Orchestra in Ottawa. Other notable performances in the season include a Gershwin program with Oregon Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Pacific Symphony, Brahms’s German Requiem with Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and the role of Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Boston Baroque, as well as the role of Dick Hallorann in Paul Moravec’s critically acclaimed opera The Shining with the Opera Atlanta.
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Program Notes
Published in 1597 in London, Dowland’s First Booke of Songes or Ayres was originally composed for soloist and lute. The lyrics are all anonymous, with the exception of My Thoughts Are Wing’d With Hopes, which has words ascribed to George, Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605). The selected songs are all melancholy love songs, typical of Dowland’s style.
Arise, Ye Subterranean Winds is an aria from the musical setting of the play The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. This play is a comedic adaptation by John Dryden and William D’Avenant of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The source of the music had always been attributed to Henry Purcell, but more recently this has been cast into doubt and it is thought that perhaps Purcell’s student, John Weldon, actually composed most of it. The aria is strongly influenced by the da capo arias that were popular in Italy at the time, and makes extensive use of word painting, for example the upward leaps given to the word “arise”.
Prometheus was composed by Franz Schubert in 1819, and is set to a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with the same name. The song is a dramatic, accusatory rant to the gods from Prometheus: a Titan and god of fire in Greek mythology, known for defying the gods by stealing fire from them and giving humanity science and technology.
The song cycle Schwanengesang was one of Schubert’s last compositions, written in 1828. The title means “Swan Song”, and was coined by Schubert’s publisher, likely as a marketing tactic. Ständchen (serenade) and Aufenthalt (dwelling place), both have text set by Ludwig Rellstab.
None but the Lonely Heart, much like Prometheus, uses text written by the influential German writer Goethe. Tchaikovsky’s melancholic composition, set to the Russian translation of the text, is the last in a cycle of six “romances” written for voice and piano in 1869, and it was premiered in Moscow in 1870.
The House of Life was composed by Vaughan Williams in 1903. From the same time as the well known “Songs of Travel”, The House of Life is a collection of six sonnets by the English writer Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The sonnets are all based on the theme of love, and combine natural metaphors with hopeful imagery to project a pure and positive image.
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is an oratorio setting of the gospel of St. Matthew. It is a truly momentous composition, clocking in at about three hours of incredible music. The recitative Am Abend, da es kühle war and its aria Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (purify yourself, my heart) are the last, and perhaps most profound, recit/aria pair of the whole work. At this point in the story, Joseph of Arimathea has collected Jesus’ body from Pilate and is about to bury it in the tomb, laying him to rest while asking his heart to be made pure.
About
Tim Manley is a senior at Princeton University, studying Computer Science with certificates in Music Performance and in Applied and Computational Mathematics. At Princeton he is a former Social Chair of the Glee Club, and a member of the Chamber Choir and the Vocal Consort. He is the current Music Director of the student run vocal consort Decem, and for two years was the music director of the Nassoons. Originally from the U.K., he was a chorister at the Choir of King’s College Cambridge, and then head chorister at Eton College.
Dr. Akiko Hosaki frequently appears with singers, instrumentalists, and conductors in the New York metropolitan area. She has served as accompanist/basso continuo player with choirs and orchestras, such as the American Boychoir, Fuma Sacra, Princeton Pro Musica, Riverside Symphonia, and Garden State Philharmonic, has played with Princeton Symphony. Previously working with several opera companies in Japan, she regularly works with the Princeton Festival Opera, and has worked with the New Jersey State Opera, Opera North, and Opera New Jersey, Delaware Valley Opera Company, and the Castleton Festival. An active chamber musician, she has performed at the World Saxophone Congress XIII, and was the official accompanist at Tubonium2 and 3. She currently serves as the head of vocal staff accompanists and the pianist coordinator at Westminster Choir College, and Senior Choir Director/organist at Hillsborough Reformed Church at Millstone. During summer, she teaches Westminster’s High School Solo Vocal Artist as the music director, and is the assistant to Dalton Baldwin at Académie internationale d’été de Nice, France, as well as at Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She holds degrees from Musashino Academia Musicae, Westminster Choir College, and University of Minnesota.
Kevin Deas has gained international renown as one of America’s leading bass- baritones. He is perhaps most acclaimed for his signature portrayal of the title role in Porgy and Bess, having performed it with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, as well as the most illustrious orchestras on the North American continent, and at the Ravinia, Vail and Saratoga festivals. Kevin Deas’ 2023-24 season includes performances of Mozart’s Requiem with the Vermont Symphony and Mobile Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the North Carolina Symphony, National Cathedral, Houston Symphony, and the NAC Orchestra in Ottawa. Other notable performances in the season include a Gershwin program with Oregon Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Pacific Symphony, Brahms’s German Requiem with Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and the role of Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Boston Baroque, as well as the role of Dick Hallorann in Paul Moravec’s critically acclaimed opera The Shining with the Opera Atlanta.