Her upcoming UCSD concert with pianist Donald Berman will showcase works by under-sung women composers
The isolation and loss caused by the pandemic was profound for Susan Narucki, who lost her mother a few months before COVID-19 arrived in 2020. The much-lauded operatic soprano and distinguished professor of music at UC San Diego had to cancel her myriad scheduled concerts and create innovative ways to teach her students during a lockdown.
A champion of contemporary music, Narucki temporarily changed course. Reading poetry led her to songs written in the first half of the last century. In spring 2022, she and acclaimed pianist Donald Berman recorded 20 of them for “This Island,” released last month by Avie Records. “Inheritance,” which premiered in 2018, dealt with gun violence and was composed by Narucki’s UCSD award-winning colleague, Lei Liang. Her 2013 chamber opera, “Cuatro Corridos,” which included a section written by Liang, explored trafficking at the U.S/Mexican border. It was nominated for a Latin Grammy.
For “This Island,” Narucki did a deep dive into finding music set to poetry. It required hours of research. “I wanted to assemble works by composers who had a high level of confidence handling emotion,” she said. “It turned out that all were women. Isn’tThe most well-known composer on “This Island” — on which Narucki sings in French, Dutch and English — is Nadia Boulanger . More famous for teaching, Boulanger stopped writing music in 1918, after her sister’s death.
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