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Madmen
Friday, May 11, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Mark Bilyeu, Piano & Alan Dunbar, Baritone.
A 90 minute recital centralized around characters who are crazy, delusional and flat-out psychopathic.
Recital showcases a newly commissioned work by Libby Larsen for the artists, a settings of letters by the
writer John Clare during his residency in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, Schubert’s settings of
poet Ernst Schulze, a known stalker of two sisters, a Swedish cycle about a King who goes mad with a
combination of power and jealousy, and another Larsen work about Herman Webster Mudgett, one of
America’s first documented serial killers who is best known for his hotel he opened in Chicago during the
1893 World Exposition – a work that has the option of multi-media animations commissioned for the work.
For more information and a full schedule: hamlinechurch.org/arts-series