Private Preview
Thursday, June 18, 2026
6:30 PM | 740 Park Avenue
Residence of German Consul General Till Knorn
Invention No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 775 (1720/3) by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779 (1723) by Bach
Violin | Carlos Rafael Martínez Arroyo
Cello | Angela Lee
Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 108 (1886-88) by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
II. Adagio
Violin | Carlos Rafael Martínez Arroyo
Piano | Melinda Lee Masur
Liebst du um Schönheit (1841) by Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Libretto
Ihre Stimme (1850) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Libretto
Feldeinsamkeit (1882) by Brahms
Libretto
The Dream Keeper (1946) by Frederick Piket (1903-1974)
Poem (1932) by Langston Hughes (1901-1967)
Libretto
Mezzo-soprano | Clara Osowski
Piano | Dimitri Dover
Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2 (1796) by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
II. Rondo. Allegro
Cello | Angela Lee
Piano | Melinda Lee Masur
Reception to follow
With gratitude to the following patrons & partners whose generosity has made this evening possible:
Dimitri Dover, Marion Lei Artist
Angela Lee, Le Fonds Pierre Jetée Artist
Clara Osowski, Rohde Family Featured Artist
Consulate of Germany in New York
Consul General Till Knorn
Boylan Bottling
Carl Brandt
Niederegger
Tarisio Fine Instruments
Click here for a full list of 2026 Sponsors and Partners
LIBRETTO
Liebst du um Schönheit
by Friedrich Rückert
If you love for beauty
Translation by Richard Stokes
Liebst du um Schönheit,
O nicht mich liebe!
Liebe die Sonne,
Sie trägt ein gold’nes Haar!
If you love for beauty,
She has golden hair!
O love not me!
Love the sun,
Liebst du um Jugend,
O nicht mich liebe!
Liebe den Frühling,
Der jung ist jedes Jahr!
If you love for youth,
O love not me!
Love the spring
Who is young each year!
Liebst du um Schätze,
O nicht mich liebe!
Liebe die Meerfrau,
Sie hat viel Perlen klar!
If you love for riches,
O love not me!
Love the mermaid
Who has many shining pearls!
Liebst du um Liebe,
O ja, mich liebe!
Liebe mich immer,
Dich lieb’ ich immerdar!
If you love for love,
Oh yes, love me!
Love me always;
I shall love you forever!
Ihre Stimme
by August von Platen
Her voice
Translation by Eric Sams
Lass tief in dir mich lesen,
Verhehl’ auch dies mir nicht,
Was für ein Zauberwesen
Aus deiner Stimme spricht!
Let me read the truth deep within you;
Do not conceal from me
What magic being
Speaks from your voice.
So viele Worte dringen
Ans Ohr uns ohne Plan
Und während sie verklingen,
Ist alles abgetan!
So many words
Reach our ears to no purpose;
They are forgotten
Even before they die away.
Doch drängt auch nur von ferne
Dein Ton zu mir sich her,
Belausch’ ich ihn so gerne,
Vergess’ ich ihn so schwer.
But your tones can reach
My ear even from afar;
I delight to hear them,
I never forget their least murmur.
Ich bebe dann, entglimme
Von allzurascher Glut:
Mein Herz und deine Stimme
Versteh’n sich gar zu gut!
Then I tremble, kindled
With sudden fire;
My heart and your voice
Understand each other only too well.
Feldeinsamkeit
by Hermann Allmers
Alone in Fields
Translation by Richard Stokes
Ich ruhe still im hohen grünen Gras
Und sende lange meinen Blick nach oben,
Von Grillen rings umschwirrt ohn’ Unterlaß,
Von Himmelsbläue wundersam umwoben.
I rest at peace in tall green grass
And gaze steadily aloft,
Surrounded by unceasing crickets,
Wondrously interwoven with blue sky.
Die schönen weißen Wolken ziehn dahin
Durchs tiefe Blau, wie schöne stille Träume; -
Mir ist, als ob ich längst gestorben bin,
Und ziehe selig mit durch ew’ge Räume.
The lovely white clouds go drifting by
Through the deep blue, like lovely silent dreams;
I feel as if I have long been dead,
Drifting happily with them through eternal space.
The Dream Keeper (1946 / NY Premiere) by Frederick Piket (1903-1974)
The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes (1901-1967)
Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamers.
Bring me all of your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too rough fingers
Of the world.