Our 22/23 season closes with a journey between darkness and light. Featuring vocalist, educator and actor Richard Oliver, this experience juxtaposes the recitation of Mark Strand’s Blizzard of One with Franz Schubert’s late String Quartet in G Major.
Franz Schubert: “My Dream” (July 3, 1882)
“For long years I felt torn between the greatest grief and the greatest love…Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me.”
Of Blizzard of One (Penguin Random House, Canada):
“Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience - a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit.”
PROGRAM:
Mark Strand: Excerpts from Blizzard of One
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D.887
ARTISTS:
Richard Oliver - Orator
The Julius Quartet
TIME: Friday, May 26 | 7:00pm
LOCATION: Interfaith Peace Chapel | 5910 Cedar Springs Rd, Dallas, TX 75235