Voice Recital by Joseph Sicotte

Joe Sicotte, who works in the Campus Safety Department, is an accomplished tenor who is working toward his BA in the Arts as a theater/music concentrate.  He has been engaged in a tutorial with Larry Wallach to learn and perform the great song cycle "Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings" by the 20th century English composer Benjamin Britten. 

For this performance, the horn part will be played by guest artist Christine Mortensen and the string parts will be rendered on the piano.  Britten's six songs trace the course of the night from sun-down to nightmare and dreams, to a vigil over a corpse to a silvery moonrise, culminating in an Ode to Sleep.  Each song sets a great example of English poetry by authors including John Cotton, Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Ben Johnson, and John Keats.  The cycle is framed by a distant call of a natural horn, and the horn accompanies five out of the six songs along with the piano.

In addition, Joe will offer a number of lighter songs from the music-theater realm.