Directed by Preethi de Silva
Spring 2020
Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 3:00 pm
Balch Auditorium
Scripps College
10th and Columbia
Claremont, CA 91711
Balch Auditorium
Scripps College
10th and Columbia
Claremont, CA 91711
Inspired by Goethe
Lieder based on texts by the great German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, and statesman
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
A concert to commemorate the 100th birthday of the late Edith Potter,
founding Board Member of Con Gioia and Professor of German, emerita of Scripps College.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
A concert to commemorate the 100th birthday of the late Edith Potter,
founding Board Member of Con Gioia and Professor of German, emerita of Scripps College.
Music for voices and fortepiano by Goethe’s close friends and contemporaries:
Carl Friedrich Zelter, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Karl Eberwein,
Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar, Mozart,
Bettine von Arnim, Beethoven, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,
Felix Mendelssohn, and
Franz Schubert
Janelle DeStefano
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Nate Widelitz
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John Buffett
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Preethi de Silva
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Roswitha Burwick
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Janelle DeStefano, mezzo-soprano
Nate Widelitz, tenor
John Buffett, Baritone
Preethi de Silva, fortepiano/ director
Roswitha Burwick, narrator
Nate Widelitz, tenor
John Buffett, Baritone
Preethi de Silva, fortepiano/ director
Roswitha Burwick, narrator
Admission free (Doors open at 2:30 p.m.)
Concert co-sponsored by Scripps College
Concert co-sponsored by Scripps College
For further information, call 909.624.0638