The Art Song: A Beautiful Marriage of Singers, pianists & readers

Presented by: Dr. Janeen Larson & Friends

The Brown Bag series will feature a variety of singers, pianists, and readers who will read poems and perform songs based on poems by American and English poets.

The “art song” is a musical setting of a pre-existing poem in which the pictures and emotions of the poems are portrayed by the pianist while the singers sing the text. The first “art song” composer was Franz Schubert in the early 1800s’ there have been hundreds of composers since who have composed music of this type.

What is the Bellman?

The Bellman Brown Bag series is a humanities program designed to explore ideas, history, literature, art and culture.  Programs are presented on the second Wednesday of each month, noon to 1:00 p.m.  Designed to begin and end within each lunch hour, patrons are invited to bring their lunch, if desired, or simply enjoy an hour of learning and entertainment.