Arts

BMC faculty recital features music by British, American composers

The Brattleboro Music Center presents a faculty recital on Sunday, May 6, featuring a program of vocal music by British and American composers.

Featured performers will be soprano Margery McCrum and tenor Walter Cramer, with Hugh Keelan at the piano.

The concert will be held at 4 p.m. in the BMC Auditorium. Tickets are $30 for patrons, $20 general admission, and $10 for students, with BMC students under 18 admitted free.

Works to be performed are mostly from the 20th century, and include solo selections from Gerald Finzi's “Oh Fair to See,” Copland's “Twelve Poems By Emily Dickinson,” various folk song settings by Benjamin Britten, and songs by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Morten Lauridsen, Vaughn Williams, and Roger Quilter.

In addition, the singers will share a few of their favorite duets to round out the afternoon's performance.

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