AS PERFORMER:
Water Music | Art Song in Recital
March 29 & 30, 2020
Daniel Neer, baritone and Suzanne Newcomb, piano
Riley Auditorium at the Battelle Fine Arts Center
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The hypnotic and dramatic effect of oceans, lakes, rivers and streams is the theme of this program of songs by British and American composers. Baritone Daniel Neer and pianist Suzanne Newcomb will present heartwarming ocean songs, violent storm ballads, shimmering fountain music, placid folk songs and rollicking sea shanties that illustrate the wildly diverse nature of water.
Water Music will feature songs by John Ireland, Gilda Lyons, John Duke, Kurt Weill, Karen Tanaka, and Charles Ives. Also featuring the song cycle Gitchee Gumee by Jonathan David with text by Daniel Neer, based on the 1975 sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior; and the World Premiere of Sandy Songs with music by Linda Kernohan and text by Daniel Neer, inspired by the impact of Hurricane Sandy on New York City in 2015.
Performance Details:
Sunday, March 29m 2pm | FREE
30 W Woodruff Avenue, Columbus Ohio
Monday, March 30, 8pm | FREE
Riley Auditorium at the Battelle Fine Arts Center
Otterbein University
170 W. Park Street
Westerville, Ohio
Lucky Dragon Number Five | Chamber work for baritone and percussion ensemble
WORLD PREMIERE
April 18, 2020
Spencer Stern, composer
Daniel Neer, lyricist and performer
Riley Auditorium at Battelle Fine Arts Center
Otterbein University | Westerville, Ohio
more information coming soon!
THE SOURCE | A play in two acts by Jack Canfora
September 2020, dates TBD
Arcturus Theater Company | Washington, D.C.
more information coming soon!
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Centaur CRC 3723The Persistence of Song – songs of Jonathan David Featuring: “Gitchee Gumee”, a song cycle with text by Daniel Neer, with Trudy Chan on piano “The Persistence of Song”, a song cycle with texts by Muriel Rukeyser, Howard Moss, Bonnie Phelps, and Thomas Merton, with Trudy Chan on Piano and Elizabeth Derham on violin. Available soon at Centaur Records
NEWLY RELEASED DVD: CLOCLO – Operetta in Three Acts by Franz Lehár Stage Direction by Steven A. Daigle | Musical Direction by Steven Byess Recorded Live at the 2018 Ohio Light Opera Summer Festival. Available soon at Operetta Foundation |
AS LIBRETTIST / LYRICIST / WRITER:
A Reading of Two One-Act Plays in Development
February 12, 2020 | 7:30pm
Workshop reading of Trope Topaz and The Interview
The Dramatists Guild, Baltimore Chapter
St. Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church (2nd Floor)
Lucky Dragon Number Five
April 18, 2020 (anticipated premiere date)
A Chamber Work for Lyric Baritone and Percussion Ensemble
Music by Spencer Stern, Libretto by Daniel Neer
Otterbein University | Westerville, Ohio
(for more information, see performance calendar above)
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
EMET (truth)
New Opera in One Act
Music by Ronnie Reshef | Libretto by Daniel Neer
Commissioned by Oded Zehavi and the Israeli Music Festival
Projected premiere: Spring/Summer 2020
Hopper Haiku
Twenty-One Songs for Voice and Piano
Inspired by America’s Premiere Realist Painter
Music by Ellen Mandel, Haiku by Daniel Neer
Dona nobis pacem
An American Oratorio for Men’s Chorus
Music by Jonathan David, Lyrics by Daniel Neer
POLAR BEAR
Chamber Work for Baritone and Trombone
On Themes of Global Warming
Music by Sara Graef, Poetry by Daniel Neer