Maria Waszyrowska, soprano & Harris Playfair, piano

About Maria Waszyrowska, soprano & Harris Playfair, piano

Maria, accompanied by the majestically versatile Harris, will sing songs from her native Poland, and begin our celebration of Bruno Walter, exploring links between Europe and Broadway. Walter fled Vienna in 1938 as the Nazis took control, as did Georg von Trapp, whose story was adapted into The Sound of Music, with Edelweiss paying tribute to Austrian folk music. Rodgers also loved to mimic Viennese operetta, and composed as many great waltzes as Johann Strauss. Weill, like Walter, was a refugee who achieved fame in America; Gershwin sought classical respectability, admiring Ravel and Schoenberg.

George Gershwin - Someone to Watch Over Me; They Can’t Take That Away from Me

Frédéric Chopin - Życzenie; Poseł; Wiosna; Śliczny Chłopiec; Niema czego trzeba

Karol Szymanowski - Lecioły zórazie; Wysła burzycka; U jeziorecka; A pod borem siwe kunie; Uwoz, mamo

Richard Rodgers - Some Enchanted Evening; Falling in Love with Love; It might as well be Spring; Edelweiss

Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Twas in the Early Spring; Amid the Din of the Ball

Eden ahbez - Nature Boy

Bruno Walter - Waldtraut’s Lied 1 & 2; Die Elfe; Die Lerche;

Des Kindes Schlaf; Solvejg’s Lied

Kurt Weill - It Never was You