Join G. Roberts Kolb to explore the setting of the sun illustrated in three media: a painting, a poem, and music!
In mythology, Phoebus (Apollo) drives the chariot of the sun across the sky each day. In the 18th century, the French painter François Boucher depicted the end of this diurnal journey. A few decades later, the German poet Friedrich Schiller imagined the same event in his poem “Der Abend” (Evening), and after another century had passed, Johannes Brahms set Shiller’s poem to music for a vocal quartet and piano. With Boucher’s painting as a backdrop, we will explore how Brahms’s music expresses and enhances Schiller’s words.
G. Roberts Kolb is the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Music Emeritus and Director of Choral Music Emeritus at Hamilton College, where he is a past holder of the Christian A. Johnson “Excellence in Teaching” Chair. He is a contributing author to Up Front! Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor (E. C. Schirmer) and Five Centuries of Choral Music (Pendragon Press). Before coming to Hamilton College in 1981, Dr. Kolb taught at Smith College, where he conducted the Smith Choirs and Glee Club. Past musical director of both the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble and the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble (Ithaca, N.Y.), he is musical director of the Catskill Choral Society; director of Tapestry, the All-Centuries Singers; and director of music at the Stone Presbyterian Church in Clinton, N.Y.
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From Utica take 12B south to Clinton. College Street extends from red light at the village square to Hamilton College. The Library is in the third block from the square, on the left, directly opposite Elm Street.
