PLEASE NOTE:
Visitors to the events of the Summer Spices in Klaipėda and Summer Spices in Palanga chamber music festivals won’t be asked to present their National Sertificates (https://gp.esveikata.lt/?lang=en) at the entrance. As part of the easing of the lockdown, these indoor events will be held at 50 % seating capacity and host up to 250 visitors keeping social distances between the seats, ensuring online ticketing and registration of visitors, mask-wearing by visitors over the age of 6, and other safety requirements laid down by the State Commander of National Emergency Operations.
Viktorija Bakan (soprano)
Accompanist and soloist Christopher Joel Cooley (piano)
With the participation of: Tadas Jakas (tenor), Rima Moisejeva (violin)
Concert presenter Gytis Šimelionis
Programme:
SAMUEL BARBER – “Daisies” from the Three Songs (text by James Stephens) for voice and piano, Op. 2; “The secrets of the old” (text by William Butler Yeats) and “Sure on this shining night” (text by James Agee) from the Four Songs for voice and piano, Op. 13
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI – Monica’s waltz from the opera The Medium
GEORGE GERSHWIN – Clara’s lullaby “Summertime” (text by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin) from the opera Porgy and Bess
GEORGE GERSHWIN – Fragments from the Rhapsody in Blue for piano and jazz band (version for solo piano) and improvisation
RICHARD ROGERS – Maria’s song “The hills are alive” and Captain von Trapp’s song “Edelweiss” (text by Oscar Hammerstein II) from the musical Sound of Music
FREDERICK LOEWE – Eliza’s song “I could have danced all night” (text by Alan Jay Lerner) from the musical My Fair Lady
ADAM GUETELL – Title song (text by Adam Guetell) from the musical The Light in the Piazza
LEONARD BERNSTEIN – Maria’s song “I feel pretty”, Tony and Maria’s duet “Tonight” (text by Stephen Sondheim, performed in Lithuanian) from the musical West Side Story
RICHARD ROGERS – “You’ll never walk alone” (text by Oscar Hammerstein II) for the musical Carousel