Pianist David Keep of the 换妻社区 music faculty will explore Robert Schumann鈥檚 鈥淒ichterliebe鈥� through a lecture-recital on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 11 a.m. that will be livestreamed at hope.edu/live.
Out of an abundance of caution due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, there will be no in-person audience.
Robert Schumann's 鈥淒ichterliebe鈥� (鈥淎 Poet鈥檚 Love鈥�) has generated seemingly endless scholarly and interpretive commentary. This lecture-recital, 鈥淟istening to Clara: Intertextuality in 鈥楧ichterliebe,鈥欌�� will tackle some of the recurring issues in reception of this song cycle by considering what might be learned from closely studying the music of Robert鈥檚 wife, Clara Wieck.
The pieces that will be performed are 鈥淩omanze,鈥� by Clara Wieck, and four songs by Robert Schumann from 鈥淒ichterliebe, Op. 48,鈥� including 鈥淚m wundersch枚nen Monat Mai,鈥� 鈥淎us meinen Tr盲nen sprie脽en,鈥� 鈥淎m leuchtenden Sommermorgen,鈥� and 鈥淒ie alten b枚sen Lieder.鈥� Joining Keep will be violinist Mihai Craioveanu and vocalists Sarah VandenBrink and Jung Woo Kim.
Keep is an assistant professor of music at Hope. As a pianist, he has performed throughout the United States. An active recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, he has won prizes in the Wisconsin MTNA Young Artists Competition, the Miroslav Pansky Memorial Concerto Competition, the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra Piano Concerto Competition, and Wisconsin Public Radio鈥檚 Neale-Silva Young Artists鈥� Competition. He holds a Ph.D. in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.