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A Love Letter to Autumn


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Andrew Egbuchiem full profile / Voice and keyboard / 2 musicians


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A Love Letter to Autumn is a recital about transition — the quiet beauty of change, memory, longing, warmth, and emotional reflection. I have always been drawn to autumn not simply as a season, but as a feeling: the golden light before winter, the tenderness of things passing, the comfort of nostalgia, and the strange peace that can exist within melancholy. This program was created as a musical meditation on those emotional colors.

The repertoire moves across centuries and cultures, bringing together Baroque arias, art songs, spirituals, and African art songs in ways that feel intimate and deeply human. Though the composers come from different traditions, the music shares a common emotional thread: vulnerability, longing, tenderness, resilience, and hope.

The program includes music by composers such as Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, Franz Schubert, Leslie Adams, and Fred Onovwerosuoke. Purcell’s Music for a While carries a quiet, almost hypnotic sense of consolation and stillness that feels deeply autumnal to me. Handel’s music often captures emotional dignity in the midst of uncertainty, while Schubert’s Du bist die Ruh offers extraordinary intimacy and warmth. Leslie Adams’ songs bring lyrical emotional honesty rooted in the African American art song tradition, and Fred Onovwerosuoke’s African art songs add another layer of earthiness, spirituality, and memory to the evening.

I am especially interested in how these pieces speak to one another across time. A Baroque lament can suddenly feel close to a spiritual; an African art song can echo the emotional directness of Schubert. In intimate spaces like Groupmuse, these connections become even more personal and immediate.

Rather than presenting a formal “concert” atmosphere, I hope this recital feels like a shared evening of storytelling and reflection — warm, conversational, emotional, and immersive. Some pieces are meditative and still; others carry fire, ache, or dramatic intensity. Together they create a kind of musical autumn landscape: rich in color, introspective, and alive with human feeling.

Proposed repertoire may include:

• Purcell — Music for a While
• Handel — Be firm, my soul
• Vivaldi — Vedrò con mio diletto
• Schubert — Du bist die Ruh
• Leslie Adams — selections from Nightsongs
• Fred Onovwerosuoke — Luwah
• Traditional Spirituals


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