sunday, dec 14 @ 3:30pm

schubert’s winterreise
@ wells pianos

for the 13th or 14th time

Local award-winning art song duo poem|music will perform Winterreise (Poem: Wilhelm Müller / Music: Franz Schubert) at Wells Pianos (St. Paul) on Sunday, December 12th (3:30pm). Hang with the artists to follow the performance. Tickets are pay-as-able $0-$50, only 40 available! RSVP at justin@barispen.com; walkups welcome.  

Written in 1828, Winterreise is a 70-minute song cycle that mines the depths of human suffering. The poems center on a solitary Wanderer roaming through deep winter, devastated after being deemed too poor for his betrothed. What follows is an unraveling journey through isolation and grief; a meditation on the suffering which attachment brings. As the Wanderer’s world narrows, we contemplate our own loneliness and need for belonging.

If you think the world is terrifying and lonely and need to feel a place in it, poem|music invites you to gather with others who feel the same way. Winterreise provides the opportunity to reconnect with community, dump your pain into music, and to rest. Song will change the world, and we’re here for it. See you at the show!