Marti Newland
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Soprano Marti Newland has performed in recitals and oratorios throughout the United States and Europe. Marti is a choral adjudicator for Worldstrides Heritage Festivals and has taught private voice lessons at Seton Hall University. She has sung in music festivals including three seasons with the Aspen Music Festival Opera Theater Center and Centro Studi Italiani in Urbania, Italy. Her music theater roles include Glenda (The Wiz) and Mama Euralie (Once on This Island) and she has been a guest soloist with the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Opera Noire of New York, and Harlem Opera Theater. Marti has worked with teachers and directors including W. Steven Smith, Lorraine Manz, Caroline Jackson Smith and Edward Berkeley. She is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music (B.M. voice performance) and currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Columbia University in Ethnomusicology. While she has performed roles in opera scenes including Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Governess (Turn of the Screw), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Musetta and Mimi (La Boheme), Cio Cio San (Madame Butterfly), and Louise (Louise), Marti specializes in African American art music.
MELODEON
American Gems
American Gems
Three Pieces for the 1889 Mason and Hamlin Liszt Organ by Arthur Bird
March of the Ethiopians
Menuetto
Preludium
Gitanjali, 1914 music by John Alden Carpenter, poetry by Rabindranath Tagore*
The Day is No More
When I bring to you colour’d toys
On the day when death will knock at thy door
The sleep that flits on Baby’s Eyes
I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn
On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
Light, My Light
Three Songs by Will Marion Cook 1912
Exhortation, a Negro Sermon
Rain Song
Swing Along!
Three Spiritual Songs:
Here’s One – William Grant Still
Urbs Syron aurea from Hora Novissima – Horatio Parker
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven – Charles Ives
Absent Friends by Arthur Corri-Clifton (1784-1832)
Performers;
Marti Newland, soprano
Stephen Oosting, tenor
George Spitzer, baritone
Artis Wodehouse, Liszt Organ and piano
March of the Ethiopians
Menuetto
Preludium
Gitanjali, 1914 music by John Alden Carpenter, poetry by Rabindranath Tagore*
The Day is No More
When I bring to you colour’d toys
On the day when death will knock at thy door
The sleep that flits on Baby’s Eyes
I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn
On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
Light, My Light
Three Songs by Will Marion Cook 1912
Exhortation, a Negro Sermon
Rain Song
Swing Along!
Three Spiritual Songs:
Here’s One – William Grant Still
Urbs Syron aurea from Hora Novissima – Horatio Parker
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven – Charles Ives
Absent Friends by Arthur Corri-Clifton (1784-1832)
Performers;
Marti Newland, soprano
Stephen Oosting, tenor
George Spitzer, baritone
Artis Wodehouse, Liszt Organ and piano
[William Grant Still (1895-1978) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma,
http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com Recordings, sheet music and books of William Grant Still are available at
www.WilliamGrantStill.com, which is operated by the composer's daughter Judith Anne Still]
Comment by email:
Dear Mr. Zick,
On behalf of MELODEON, thank you for this blog posting about our upcoming performance! Will be sure to keep you posted of future events. We appreciate the support from AfriClassical. Sincerely, Marti [Marti Newland]
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