Two Poets in Music: Whitman and Pushkin in Music

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TWO POETS IN MUSIC: WHITMAN AND PUSHKIN Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. Embassy of France [...]                                                                                                                                                              RCAS continues its homage to poets with a tribute to Walt Whitman (1819-1892), whose centennial will be celebrated in 2019. The wide-ranging Dec. 6 program pairs the free verse of this most American of poets with the elegant stanzas of Russian master Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837). Featured composers, whose settings of Pushkin and Whitman will be sung in Russian and in English, include Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, César Cui, Charles Ives, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ned Rorem, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Slonimsky, Georgy Sviridov and Kurt Weill. Performing will be soprano Shelley Jackson,  baritone Kevin Wetzel and pianists Michael Sheppard and  Vera Danchenko-Stern, RCAS founder and artistic director. [...] What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you? All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me. From "Who Goes There?" by Walt Whitman, set by Charles Ives La Maison Française is located at 4101 Reservoir Road NW  in Washington, D.C. PLEASE NOTE: A PHOTO ID IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRANCE TO THE EMBASSY AND METERED STREET PARKING IS AVAILABLE