April 1 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Featuring Kimberly Lazzeri (soprano), William Herzog (violin), and Christina Seal (piano)
Professors from Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts
This lecture recital features songs for voice, violin, and piano from the newly released album, Freylekh: A “joyful” rediscovery of De Cormier’s Yiddish folksongs. These songs are selections from the recently published The Yiddish Folksong Project Anthology: The arrangements of Robert De Cormier, bringing to light Robert De Cormier’s folksong arrangements, which had previously been kept in a storage closet for over 40 years. Not only is this anthology the first-ever publication of De Cormier’s arrangements of Yiddish folksongs, but it is also the first-ever large body of Yiddish folksong repertoire that is arranged in the classical style for performance on the concert or recital stage.