In continuation of a 4-part concert series at the New York residence of the Consul General of Switzerland, Ambassador Barras hosted an evening of musical entertainment for our American Friends of the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation. The donor event on 6 October featured Laure Barras soprano, Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano, Lionel Cottet celloand Louis Schwizgebel piano. As special guest lecturer, noted psychiatrist Richard Brockman discussed Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.
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Lake Geneva, Frankenstein and Lost Love
Laure Barras soprano
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano
Francis Poulenc
(1899-1963)
-La Dame de Monte Carlo
-Air de Thérèse: “Non Monsieur mon mari”
from Les Mamelles de Tirésias
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula
(1991- )
-Stabat Mater
-Entretien sur une tombe
Richard Brockman narration
-Frankenstein, a discussion and performance
Lionel Cottet cello
Louis Schwizgebel piano
Ernest Bloch
(1880-1959)
-Méditation Hébraïque
Sergeï Rachmaninov
(1873-1943)
-Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19, Andante
Schubert-Liszt
-Lieder transcriptions:
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