![]() ![]() Fausts alptraum piano room series#As she describes it, the concept of the series is to match music with poetry that shares a mood or evokes similar emotions, rather than referring to specific ideas or events. Virtuoso pianist Inna Faliks’ latest installment of her innovative Music/Words series last night was a throwback to the Paris salons of the late 1800s, in the aptly lowlit atmosphere of the back room at the Gershwin Hotel. “Cross-Pollination at the Gershwin with Inna Faliks” from Lucid Culture: Her poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Serbian. She also serves on the editorial board for the NYC based translation project “Ars-Interpes.” Irina Mashinski is the winner of several literary awards, including the First Prizes at the Russian America (2001), Maximilian Voloshin (2003), and other poetry contests. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Anthology of Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky, as well as co-founder and co-editor of the Cardinal Points literary journal, published in the U.S. ![]() Her work has appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Poetry International, Fulcrum, Zeek, The London Magazine, and An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets. After immigrating to the United States, Samantha came to study music, earning her Bachelor of Music at Indiana University and her Master of Music at Manhattan School of Music.īilingual poet and translator Irina Mashinski has authored seven books of poetry in Russian, and her most recent collections are Volk (Wolf) and Raznochinets pervyi sneg i drugie stikhotvoreniia (Raznochinets First Snow and Other Poems). Her operatic roles include Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Nannetta in Falstaff, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. Earlier that year, during an alumni residency, Samantha performed songs of Debussy and Schumann lieder at the Britten Pears Music Festival. In July 2010, the International Contemporary Ensemble invited Samantha as the guest soprano in a live broadcast on WQXR Classical Radio New York as well as a two-day music festival celebrating the music of Edgar Varèse at Alice Tully Hall. During that summer, she finished her engagement as a young artist for the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Music Festival in Chicago. At the end of 2010, she was thrilled to make her Weill Hall debut recital at Carnegie Hall. South African soprano Samantha Malk recently returned from a concert tour around China, Vietnam and Thailand. With a repertoire in continuous expansion, her works are sought out by musicians both in the classical and the jazz realms. Miss Assad’s music often have a thematic core, and explore the physical and psychological elements of the chosen story or concept. A versatile artist of musical depth and sophistication, her works have been published in France (Editions Lemoine), Germany (Trekel), and in the United States (Virtual Artists Collective Publishing), and have been performed in Europe, South America, the United States and Japan. Pianist Clarice Assadĭescribed by the San Francisco Chronicle as a “serious triple threat,” and “an arranger and orchestrator of great imagination” (SF Classical Voice), Clarice Assad ( is making her mark in the music world as a pianist, arranger, as a vocalist and as a composer. Music/Words will be featured in regular live broadcasts throughout the month of April on WFMT Radio in Chicago. Faliks’ musical selections, finding poems from her own works that connect with the music. ![]() Mashinski will tailor her readings to Ms. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling 21. The Cornelia Street Café ( is located at 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, NYC. The program includes Schoenberg’s Drei Klavierstucke, opus 11 his songs from Book of Hanging Gardens and various improvisations by Ms. The program will explore the sensuousness of early Schoenberg (with the Stefan Georgy poetry used in the songs), along with the passion of Mashinski’s poetry and Assad’s Brazilian music. Music/Words continues its fourth season on Sunday, April 22, 2012, at 6:00 pm with a performance at New York’s Cornelia Street Cafe featuring Inna Faliks alongside guest Clarice Assad at the piano along with soprano Samantha Malk and poet Irina Mashinski. *NEW as of April 21: Read the preview article in Sequenza21.* ![]()
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