Epstein Secrets

. Director Thaddeus Strassberger returns to SummerScape after his successes in previous seasons with Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Schreker's Der ferne Kiang, and Chabrier's Le roi malgre lui. Sung in the original Russian with English supertitles. LINKS: fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/ fishercenterb

al of his son Orestes. Director Thaddeus Strassberger returns to SummerScape after his successes in previous seasons with Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Schreker's Der ferne Kiang, and Chabrier's Le roi malgre lui. Sung in the original Russian with English supertitles. LINKS: fishercenter.bard.edu/summersca

Director Thaddeus Strassberger returns to SummerScape after his successes in previous seasons with Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Schreker's Der ferne Kiang, and Chabrier's Le roi malgre lui. Sung in the original Russian with English supertitles. LINKS: fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/ fishercenter.

l of his son Orestes. Director Thaddeus Strassberger returns to SummerScape after his successes in previous seasons with Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Schreker's Der ferne Kiang, and Chabrier's Le roi malgre lui. Sung in the original Russian with English supertitles. LINKS: fishercenter.bard.edu/summersca

No. 3, Alexander Zemlinsky's Symplzonische Gesiinge, Mahler's Ruckert Lieder; and Franz Schreker's "Nachtstiick" interlude from his opera Der Ferne Kiang -- rare works, the Mahler songs excepted, that few audiences can have ever heard performed live. All four composers were colleagues in turn-of-the-c

n 1907; if such works are still worth hearing at all, they should surely be sampled on reference recordings rather than in a concert. Zemlinsky and Schreker had more individual voices, and both deserve careful reassessment, although I wonder if they are well served by being exposed in an academic context