Music at Meyer / Mirror Visions Ensemble In Concert

Mirror Visions Ensemble
Vira Slywotzky, soprano
Scott Murphree, tenor
Jesse Blumberg, baritone

JOURNEYS
The Mirror Visions Ensemble sings its way to far-flung destinations, real and imaginary. Travel songs by Barber, Berlioz, Blangini, Duparc, Haydn, Poulenc and Hugo Wolf share the ride with commissions by Christopher Berg, Tom Cipullo, Deborah Fischer Teason and Scott Wheeler, as well as Gilda Lyons' "Great Barrier Reef." The poetry of Baudelaire, Joyce and Metastasio is featured, as well as the correspondence of Paul Bourget, Henry James and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

As the New York Times aptly states, MIRROR VISIONS' "programs are shaped with an ear to the poetry of song texts." The initial interest of the ensemble  comprised of soprano Vira Slywotzky, tenor Scott Murphree, and baritone Jesse Blumberg  was the back-to-back performance of multiple settings of a single text. 

Led by Artistic Director and co-founder Tobé Malawista, the ensemble has commissioned more than 80 vocal chamber music works from 18 composers, including Christopher Berg, Tom Cipullo, Richard Lalli, Gilda Lyons, Russell Platt, Richard Pearson Thomas, Francine Trester, Scott Wheeler and Yehudi Wyner. Past seasons include performances at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Bargemusic, SubCulture(Le) Poisson Rouge, Lincoln Center's Library for the Performing Arts, New York University's Frederick Loewe Theatre,and Bard College's Longy School of Music, as well as frequent appearances in Paris at the American University of Paris, the American Church in Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Musée Nissim de Camondo and Musée des Arts Décoratifs.

"Charm is a quality that this ensemble of three engaging singers has in spades" -- The New Yorker

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