Music for baritone and bass-baritone is in store for our next Ryan Opera Center Recital. Third-year baritone Ian Rucker will be heard in Poulenc’s Calligrammes based on the visual poetry of French poet Guillaume Apollinaire and will delight us in a rendition of Stevie Wonder’s hit song “You and I”. Second-year bass-baritone Christopher Humbert, Jr. brings us an aria from William Grant Still’s opera Highway One USA and will show us the beauty of “Pure Imagination”, a song made famous from the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Also featured are compositions by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Franz Schubert. Michael Banwarth joins on the piano.
Baritone Ian Rucker, Bass-Baritone Christopher Humbert, Jr., and Pianist Michael Banwarth
Playlist
“Im frühling”
“Der Zwerg”, Op. 22 No. 1
“Der Doppelgänger” from Schwanengesang No. 13, by Franz Schubert
Christopher Humbert, Jr., bass-baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
Calligrammes, by Francis Poulenc
Ian Rucker, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
“Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen”, by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Ian Rucker, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
“A Dream Wasted” from Highway One USA, by William Grant Still
Christopher Humbert, Jr., bass-baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
“You and I”, by Stevie Wonder
Ian Rucker, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
“Pure Imagination”, from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, by Lesie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
Christopher Humbert, Jr., bass-baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
