Mignon by Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, 1828
Song of the Day Series
So lasst mich scheinen (Wolf/Goethe)
Graham Johnson
For SongFest 2020 participant Temple Hammen.
Duration: 36 minutes
About:
Hosted by Graham Johnson, The Song of the Day series is a daily meditation on the many layers and complexities contained in a single song. Each song is dedicated to one or more performers who would have taken part in SongFest this summer. Dedicatees were chosen in collaboration between our artistic Director Rosemary Ritter and the students.
Resources:
Oxford Lieder’s Translation of So lasst mich scheinen by Richard Stokes
Graham Johnson’s Program Notes on Wolf’s So lasst mich scheinen on Hyperion Records
About Our Participants
Temple Hammen
Temple Hammen, lyric soprano, is completing her Master's studies at Mannes School of Music in New York City. This year, she was to cover the title role of Dafne in La Dafne and making her Lincoln Center debut as a soloist in Steve Reich’s Tehillim.
Ms. Hammen's previous performances include Filia in Carissimi’s Jephta, Iolanthe in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, Un Patré in Poulenc’s L'enfant Et Les Sortileges, and Una Conversa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica at Westminster’s Opera Theater. She has performed in the first American production of Lachenmann’s The Little Match Girl (Spoleto Festival USA) and was to perform the world premier of Sheila Silver's On Trees at SongFest (rescheduled for June 2021). Ms. Hammen has been seen in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music (Spoleto Festival USA), Beethoven Choral Fantasy, Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes and Bach’s Wachet Auf.