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A Tribute to Lee Hoiby at Lincoln Center

Feb. 29, 2012

A Tribute to Lee Hoiby at Lincoln Center

On March 1, Joy in Singing presented a tribute to Lee Hoiby at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center. The concert featured Katharine Dain, soprano, Sarah Miller, mezzo-soprano, Leon Williams, baritone, and pianist Jonathan Ware. Hoiby, who passed away in 2011, is celebrated as one of America’s foremost composers for the voice. Paul Sperry, artistic director of Joy in Singing, remarks:

Lee Hoiby stands very tall among American composers who wrote for the voice. With his five operas, three monologues, and seventy or so songs he has given singers everywhere a rich repertoire from which to choose. He poured out melodies that singers love and piano parts that reveal what an exceptional pianist he must have been - as indeed he was. We all miss him.

The concert featured 18 of Hoiby’s songs, including settings of poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, e.e. cummings and Martin Luther King, Jr. 

More on the life of Lee Hoiby can be found at www.schott-music.com. Read a tribute to Lee Hoiby on the New Music Box here.

Details on the performance are located at www.joyinsinging.org.

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