It was such a blast returning to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to perform on a program featuring works that tie music with landscape. I was delighted to sing The Log House by Anton Heinrich as well as the prologue to Lully’s Alceste. I’ve never been on such an eclectic program, featuring composers from Stravinsky to Gluck, to Caroline Shaw. So…. when can we do it again??
“Soprano Maggie Finnegan soared through “The thundering Fall! The bubbling stream…Nature’s whispers…trilling arpeggios.” One of the poet’s other lines could describe her singing “With wild sweet play,” and I would offer with dazzlement musically and virtuosically.”
