Saturday afternoon at 27 North Sherbourne Rachel Krehm and Janelle Fung presented an art song recital entitled The Enticing Sky. The material chosen was interesting with a heavy bias to women composers, living composers and Canadian composers; sometimes all three at once.
We got extracts from Come Closer; settings of the poetry of Elizabeth Krehm by Ryan Trew, Ethel Smyth’s Three Songs of the Sea, Dorothy Chang’s Songs of Wood and Water, Anna Pidgorna’s Amphráin Eibhlín (the only non English language text) and Cecilia Livingston’s luna premit. Continue reading