AS PERFORMER:
Water Music | Art Song in Recital
Daniel Neer, baritone and Suzanne Newcomb, piano
with Peter Gooch, trombone
March 13, 2021 | 8pm
Riley Auditorium at the Battelle Fine Arts Center
170 W. Park Street, Westerville, OH
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Water Music focuses on the hypnotic and dramatic effect of oceans, lakes, rivers, streams and the impact of water on our lives, featuring old and new 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’s movement on our planet.
In addition to song settings by John Ireland, Gilda Lyons, John Duke, Mildred Lund Tyson, Kurt Weill and Celius Dougherty, Water Music will feature two exciting world premieres: Sandy Songs by Linda Kernohan, a song set for voice and piano; and POLAR BEAR, a chamber music work for voice and trombone by Sara Graef; both set to texts by Daniel Neer.
NEW RECORDINGS / VIDEO:
Kontaken Records (KR109) And Here We Are, a shadow puppet opera Music by Matthew Welch, Libretto by Daniel NeerRecorded Live at National Sawdust, May 6, 2018. Available now at Kontaken Records. Also available soon on iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, Google Play and YouTube
Centaur (CRC 3723) The 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 now at Centaur Records
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 now at Operetta Foundation
AS LIBRETTIST / LYRICIST / WRITER:
POLAR BEAR
Vocal Chamber Music Work for Voice and Trombone on Themes of Global Warming
Music by Sara Graef | Lyrics by Daniel Neer
Made possible with grants from The Ohio Arts Council and Puffin Foundation West
Premiere: March 13, 2021
Battelle Fine Arts Center (see information above for more details)
Sandy Songs
A Song Set for Baritone and Piano
Music by Linda Kernohan | Lyrics by Daniel Neer
Premiere: March 13, 2021
Battelle Fine Arts Center (see Water Music information above for more details)
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