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Thomas DeFisher: Die schöne Müllerin
August 8 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$15.00Join us as Thomas DeFisher takes center stage at historic Gates Hall, performing Die schöne Müllerin. Built in 1825, the hall provides a perfect ambiance for this romantic 1823 story of a young miller, a wandering stream, and unrequited love.
Die schöne Müllerin is a cycle of twenty songs composed by Austrian composer Franz Schubert with poems selected from German poet Wilhelm Müller. The romantic story follows a young miller who befriends a brook which leads him to a mill. He falls madly in love with the miller’s beautiful daughter, but his love is found to be unrequited as she eventually rejects him in favor of a hunter. In despair, the young miller wades into the brook that has been his companion throughout the cycle and drowns himself.
Thomas DeFisher is a graduate of the Williamson Central School District and a rising junior at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music in Wheaton, IL. His performance is not to be missed!
Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Gates Hall Preservation Fund. We are grateful for Thomas’s talent and generosity.