CARNEGIE HALL
Main Hall
1997-98 Season

Thursday Evening May 28, 1998, at 8 PM

Kenneth Lane
WAGNERIAN ROMANTISCHER HELDENTENOR
Fourth Carnegie Hall Concert
An ALL-WAGNER Program

WAGNER - THE EPIC & THE LYRIC
WAGNER songs composed 1838-40*
Complete Wesendonck Lieder
TRISTAN's Synthesis
The Rare & Familiar Rienzi

Wagner's early years in his mid-twenties wherein all he surveyed reflected his sanguine love of life, his view that all is ephemeral, his empathy for man's tribulations, and his tenderness towards children -- a classic Lullaby -- and his identification with young lovers. This purview of his output sweeps along with a Landscape of two of his Heroes TRISTAN & RIENZI: Political, Tormented, Romantic, Lusty, & Fearless in Syntheses revealing their outward, and most personal inner compulsions.

with

DAVID BRANDON, Pianist at the Steinway Grand

All parenthetical dates represent: C (Completed)
and FP (the first public performance).

The entire concert to be recorded live at the performance, and available commercially
on Compact Discs and Audiocassettes.
VALHALLA RECORDS

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Kenneth Lane’s father, Dr. Morris J. Lane,
and in tribute to his mother, Celia G. Lane, for her long years of limitless support.

* American PREMIERES

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