3.51 C The Year of Vocal Masters poster

3.51 C The Year of Vocal Masters poster

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A poster promoting a Scholarship Matters faculty presentation by Dr. David Sadlier, Dr. Danielle Ward-Griffin, and Dr. Lelia Sadlier.

April 18, 2013

The College of Arts & Humanities

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Dr. David Sadlier (tenor, Assistant Professor of Voice) teaches applied voice lessons, conducts the CNU Men's Chorus and has led two productions of Opera CNU. Dr. Sadlier holds his doctoral and master's degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and his bachelor of music from Loyola University (New Orleans). A frequent performer on the operatic, concert and recital stage, Sadlier most recently appeared in recital with pianist Dr. Lelia Sadlier at The Chursh of St. Martin in the Fields (London) to a standing-room-only audience. Sadlier is also executive of the Cornish-American Son Institute held in Falmouth, United Kingdom, each spring.

Dr. Danielle Ward-Griffin (Assistand Professor of Music History) received her MA and PhD in music from yale University and hods a bachelor of music from McGill University. Her research explores how the operas of Benjamin Britten participated in a broader search for home in postwar England. She has presented her work at national and international conferences and will speak at symposiums at the University of Chicago and the University of Nottingham (UK) later this spring. her chapter"Animating Owen Wingrave: Ghosts and Global Television" is forthhcoming in Rethinking Britten (Oxford University Press, 2013), and she is currently working on an article on the Aldeburgh music festival and the 20th century English village.

This year marks an important anniversary for three of the vocal repertory's most important composers. Music lovers around the world will celebrate the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten and the 200th birthdays of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi. From the operatic theater to the concert stage, their works have become synonymouse with some of the most innovative advancements in classical vocal music. In this lecture-recital, their works will be presented both as intellectual milestones and artistic accomplishments that re-shaped opera, oratorio and art song.

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