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SCHOOL OF MUSIC
GUEST RECITAL
NORMAN SPIVEY, BARITONE
October 4, 2009 3:00 P.M. H. Douglas Lee Chapel
Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
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Out of courtesy to all, please follow these requests:
Turn off all cellular phones, beepers, and other electronic devices.
Do not leave or enter the hall while music is being performed.
Do not operate flash photography during the performance.
Any recording must be authorized by the performer and the School of Music.
Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947), an extraordinary French composer, pianist, singer, music
critic, conductor, and impresario, has been called the musician of the Belle Epoque.
Earning this title was perhaps unlikely for a boy born in Venezuela to a father of German-
Jewish heritage and a South American mother. When he was quite young the family
relocated to Paris where his musical gifts blossomed. He entered the conservatoire at age
10, wrote many of his most enduring melodies during his teen years, and became the
darling of the salons (many of which were major centers of literature and music). Hahn
met Proust at a salon, and the two were lifelong friends after a passionate affair.
("Everything I have ever done has always been thanks to Reynaldo," Proust once
commented.) Among Hahn's writings are essays on the art of singing — Du Chant (On
Singers and Singing), and a biography of his dear friend Sarah Bernhardt — La Grande
Sarah.
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