The Wagner Society of Washington DC

THE WORLD ON THE BRINK OF THE ABYSS: THE WORLD ON THE BRINK OF THE ABYSS: THE WORLD ON THE BRINK OF THE ABYSS: THE WORLD ON THE BRINK OF THE ABYSS:

MUSIC IN 1914MUSIC IN 1914MUSIC IN 1914MUSIC IN 1914

JANACEK, SCRIABIN, PROKOFIEV, IVES, DEBUSSY

JEFFREY SWANN, PIANOJEFFREY SWANN, PIANOJEFFREY SWANN, PIANOJEFFREY SWANN, PIANO

ANDANDANDAND

EUDORA BROWN, SOPRANOEUDORA BROWN, SOPRANOEUDORA BROWN, SOPRANOEUDORA BROWN, SOPRANO

IN CONCERTIN CONCERTIN CONCERTIN CONCERT

Saturday, September 27, 2014

7:30 pm

Katzen Arts Center, American University

4400 Massachuse!s Avenue, NW

Washington DC 20016 Picasso. Guitar and sheet music. 1912

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Jeffrey Swann is a recipient of The Wagner

Award presented by WSWDC to outstanding Wag-

ner scholars and performers. Dr. Swann has had a

worldwide concert career and is a featured lecturer

at the Wagner in der Wildnis retreat and at Bay-

reuth. His recent Beethoven and Chopin Cycles

received rave reviews from The New York Times.

Allan Kozinn wrote, “Mr. Swann… assembles his

programs imaginatively, often with an extra musi-

cal theme that connects seemingly disparate

works… with both obscure and commonplace information that are

clearly prepared carefully, even though they give the impression of

being off the cuff.”

Since 2007 Jeffrey Swann has been Artistic Director of the Dino Ciani

Festival & Academy in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy; since 2008 the Adel

Artist-in-Residence at Northern Arizona University; since 2010 Profes-

sor of Piano at New York University; and since 2013 Artistic Director

of the Scuola Normale Superiore Concert Series in Pisa.

Eudora Brown, soprano

In July 2012, Eudora Brown performed the soprano solo

in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Boston Sympho-

ny Orchestra for the Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Cele-

bration with conductor Maestro David Zinman and pianist

Peter Serkin. She participated in the American Wagner

Project with Ms. Dolora Zajick and Ms. Luana DeVol.

She will perform the role of Liu with Opera Hong Kong

this winter and Trovatore’s Leonora the following season..

Ms. Brown has sung with conductors Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano, Grae-

me Jenkins, Antony Walker, Kenneth Montgomery, and Jane Glover

among others, and has performed with the Dallas Opera, Santa Fe

Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theater of Chicago, Washington

Concert Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera and at the National Cathedral.

A three time vocal fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, Ms. Brown

received her Master of Music degree in voice from The Manhattan

School of Music and her Bachelor of Music from USC Thornton School

of Music.

www.eudorabrown.com

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Saturday, September 27, 2014 7:30 PM

American University Katzen Arts Center 4400 Massachusetts Ave., Washington DC

Tickets: $35

WSWDC Members and AU Students: $25

Free for renewing and new 2015 WSWDC members

Call 703-370-1923 or on-line at www.wagner-dc.org

P. O. Box 58213, Washington DC 20037