Pianist Graham Johnson and soprano Martha Guth to perform Jan. 29-30

The Cornell Department of Music welcomes internationally acclaimed soprano Martha Guth and legendary pianist-scholar Graham Johnson to campus for events on January 29 and 30.

On Thursday, Jan. 29 at 6:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall, the Cornell Voice Program and the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards present Salon Solèy, a performance and conversation series, featuring Graham Johnson. The evening brings together student performances with Johnson's interpretive guidance and historical perspective to explore nineteenth-century German Lieder and the evolving relationship between voice and piano, from the fortepiano to the modern instrument.

Then on Friday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall, Guth and Johnson present "All About Eve," a recital exploring musical visions of womanhood in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The program features Gabriel Fauré's "La Chanson d'Eve" (1906), a defining work of the composer's late style, followed by songs by Franz Schubert portraying women shaped by love, fate, and loss. Together, Guth and Johnson bring a shared depth of insight and artistry to a program shaped by myth and psychology.

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