Emilie Buhl Piano Recital

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Time and Location

Sat, Apr 18, 2026 - 4:00pm PDT

90 minutes
Performing Arts Center 155 - Concert Hall

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Collaborators

MJ Chapel, Sam Byrd, Luke Gavin, Joshua Tom, Emma Jeanne Dorsch

From the studios of Judith Widrig and Jeffrey Gilliam

Program

D’un matin de printemps - MJ Chapel

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

 

Sonata for Viola and Piano no. 2 in Eb Major, op. 120 no. 2 - Luke Gavin

    I. Allegro amable

    II. Allegro appassionato

    III. Andante con moto

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

 

Fêtes Galantes I, FL 86 - Emma Jeanne Dorsch

     En sourdine

     Fantoches

      Claire de lune

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

 

 

Contrasts, sz.111 - Joshua Tom, Sam Byrd

    I. Verbunkos

    II. Pihenő

    III. Sebes 

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

Translations

En sourdine

French source: Paul Verlaine 

Calmes dans le demi-jour
Que les branches hautes font,
Pénétrons bien notre amour
De ce silence profond.

Fondons nos âmes, nos cœurs
Et nos sens extasiés,
Parmi les vagues langueurs
Des pins et des arbousiers.

Ferme tes yeux à demi,
Croise tes bras sur ton sein,
Et de ton cœur endormi
Chasse à jamais tout dessein.

Laissons-nous persuader
Au souffle berceur et doux
Qui vient à tes pieds rider
Les ondes des gazons roux.

Et quand, solennel, le soir
Des chênes noirs tombera,
Voix de notre désespoir,
Le rossignol chantera. 

Muted

English translation © Richard Stokes 

Calm in the twilight
Cast by lofty boughs,
Let us steep our love
In this deep quiet.

Let us blend our souls, our hearts
And our enraptured senses
With the hazy languor
Of arbutus and pine.

Half-close your eyes,
Fold your arms across your breast,
And from your heart now lulled to rest
Banish forever all intent.

Let us both succumb
To the gentle and lulling breeze
That comes to ruffle at your feet
The waves of russet grass.

And when, solemnly, evening
Falls from the black oaks,
That voice of our despair,
The nightingale shall sing. 

Fantoches

French source: Paul Verlaine 

Scaramouche et Pulcinella
Qu’un mauvais dessein rassembla
Gesticulent, noirs sous la lune.

Cependant l’excellent docteur
Bolonais cueille avec lenteur
Des simples parmi l’herbe brune.

Lors sa fille, piquant minois,
Sous la charmille, en tapinois,
Se glisse, demi-nue, en quête

De son beau pirate espagnol,
Dont un amoureux rossignol
Clame la détresse à tue-tête. 

Scaramouche and Pulcinella

English translation © Richard Stokes 

Scaramouche and Pulcinella
Drawn together by some evil scheme,
Gesticulate, black beneath the moon.

Meanwhile the excellent doctor
From Bologna is leisurely picking
Medicinal herbs in the brown grass.

Then his daughter, pertly pretty,
Beneath the arbour, stealthily,
Glides, half-naked, in quest

Of her handsome Spanish pirate,
Whose grief a lovelorn nightingale
Proclaims as loudly as he can. 

Clair de lune

French source: Paul Verlaine 

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L’amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils n’ont pas l’air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau,
Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres. 

Moonlight

English translation © Richard Stokes 

Your soul is a chosen landscape
bewitched by masquers and bergamaskers,
playing the lute and dancing and almost
sad beneath their fanciful disguises.

Singing as they go in a minor key
of conquering love and life’s favours,
they do not seem to believe in their fortune
and their song mingles with the light of the moon,

The calm light of the moon, sad and fair,
that sets the birds dreaming in the trees
and the fountains sobbing in their rapture,
tall and svelte amid marble statues. 

Source: https://oxfordsong.org/

 

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