Artists have long been fascinated with the subject of sleep, for while it is universally common, it is extremely complex.  Every person’s experience of sleep is different; sleep can regenerate and revive us, but also evade and frighten us.  It is fertile ground for dreams and for escape from the painful experiences of life.  Death itself is a kind of eternal sleep, a gateway from our present reality into immortality.

The following program explores facets of the complexity of sleep. Tied with themes of nature, hope, death, eternity, and love, perhaps it will challenge our ideas of what “sleep is supposed to be”…

PROGRAM

Six Elizabethan Songs | Dominick Argento (1927-2019) | with Ann-Marie Iacoviello, soprano

In Sleep the World is Yours | Lori Laitman (b. 1955) | with Julianne Wolfe, soprano and Haley Russell, oboe

Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) | with Jade Espina, mezzo-soprano