Biographie de charles baudelaire

Baudelaire’s influence extends as well to the musical domain, as Juilliard singers will reveal at the fourth annual Songfest, on December 4. Brian Zeger (M.M. ’81, piano), the artistic director of the Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts, curated the evening and will accompany the performers on Baudelaire settings by eight composers—Duparc, Chausson, Daron Hagen, Caplet, Fauré, Debussy, Alexander Gretchaninov, and Hindemith.

In a recent interview, Zeger told The Journal that his goal was to give the four singers—soprano Christine Price, mezzo Virginie Verrez, countertenor Eric Jurenas, and tenor Miles Mykkanen—“a real immersion into one world of music.” And it’s a world with particular resonance for Zeger, who became captivated as a high school French student by “the raw spirit of rebellion” in Baudelaire’s writing.

“Being a teenager myself and coming of age in the 1970s and ’80s, that spirit of rebellion, which really started in the ’60s, was still very much in the air,” he said.

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