Dinner and Entertainment: Reception, gourmet dinner, Overture to Tannhäuser danced by Jeanne Bresciani, highlights from the Society’s first quarter-century, honoring of charter members, photo displays, and silent auction. p.m.
25th WSNY Anniversary Gala and Reception. transcriptions.
Metropolitan Opera baritone Eike Wilm Schulte in a program of Schuber Lieder; Carrie-Ann Matheson (pianist).
Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Met debut of Lucine Amara (soprano). Recital by Mme. Amara; Thomas Bagwell, pianist, followed by interview and reception; Lew Grenville, interviewer.
Amanda Mace (soprano); Thomas Bagwell (pianist).
Lecture and recital by Jeffrey Swann, concert pianist and Wagner scholar, followed by a German buffet lunch.
Principals: Marjorie Elinor Dix (soprano), Eugenie Grunewald (mezzo-soprano); Thomas Bagwell (pianist).
Principals: Adrienne Dugger (soprano), Emile Fath (baritone); Joseph Smith, piano.
Lecture with musical demosntrations by Joseph Smith, pianist and scholar, assisted by Judith Donham (soprano), Madeline Kristoffersson (soprano), and Duncan Hartman (baritone).
Noted voice teacher Oren Brown with some of his pupils and Society Members
Principals: Jane Dutton (mezzo-soprano), Stephan Kirchgraber (bass); Steven M. Crawford (pianist).
Principals: Caroline Whisnant (soprano), Clayton Brainerd (bass-baritone), joined by Edward Russell (bass); Kathleen Kelly (pianist).