MasterVoices: Night Songs & Love Waltzes at Alice Tully Hall

This evening features the music of influential Romantic era composers, as well as todays Ricky Ian Gordon and Stephen Sondheim, and the poetry that inspired them. Welcome to the intimate art of the part-song, a popular form of 19th century harmony most often sung around the parlor piano.MasterVoicesNight Songs and Love Waltzesshowcasescompositional masters of this lost tradition includingFelix Mendelssohn,Claraand Robert Schumann,Franz Schubert,andJohannes Brahms as well as brand new music from contemporary composerRicky Ian Gordon. The evening will conclude with a specially arranged suite of waltzes fromStephen SondheimsA LittleNight Music, arranged by MasterVoices own Tony Award-winning Artistic DirectorTed Sperling. What better way to embrace the coming spring?