We invite you to the second concert in First Presbyterian Church of Easton’s Fall Concert Series, a performance of Winterreise, performed by Jordan D. Lewis, baritone, and Ruth Kochera, piano.

Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. Winterreise was composed in two parts, each with twelve songs, in 1827. Schubert raises the importance of the pianist to a role equal to that of the singer. The piano's rhythms constantly express the moods of the poet; the piano supplies rich effects in the nature imagery of the poems, the voices of the elements, the creatures and active objects, the rushing storm, the crying wind, the water under the ice, birds singing, ravens croaking, dogs baying, the rusty weathervane grating, the post horn calling, and the drone and repeated melody of the hurdy-gurdy.

This concert is free and open to the public.