Senior Recital: Eby Buscher

Just days away from soprano Eby Buscher's senior recital, she made some time to answer a few questions about her recital and about her final year! Joining her will also be director Robby Napoli, on two Schumann duets. If you can't make it, no worries, there'll be a livestream! For more information, check out the buttons below.

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It’s finally senior year! How’re you feeling about that?
It feels like it went by so quickly, but so much has happened and it’s crazy to look back on all I’ve done. But I’m also super excited about the future!
Besides your recital, what are you most excited about this year?
Performing Handel’s Messiah with the Gettysburg College Choir.
What’s been your favorite experience studying music in college?
The opportunities to explore and perform many different types of music with many other talented people. Over four years, I have been able to perform in ensembles as different as Opera Workshop, Camerata, Gamelan, and the Bullets Marching Band, and sing everything from Baroque arias to vocal jazz to newly commissioned choral works. I have also been extremely fortunate to focus on what I love to perform by going to Italy for two vocal summer programs to study Italian language, music, and culture at Orvieto Musica and Si Parla, Si Canta.

Okay, so, recital time. Let’s start with the easy question. When and where is your recital?
November 11, 2018 at 2:30pm in Paul Recital Hall in Schmucker Memorial Hall at Gettysburg College.
What’s your favorite piece on your recital?
“Pur Ti Miro” from L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi. It combines my three loves: Baroque music, opera, and “la bella lingua,” the Italian language. Featuring Bridget Kennedy, mezzo-soprano, it is a duet full of crunchy suspensions and stunning lyrical lines. “Piangero, La Sorte Mia” from Giulio Cesare is a close second though, due in part to it being composed by G.F. Handel, my favorite composer. It is also stunningly beautiful and depicts raw emotion of grief and anger through both simple and challenging phrases. 
How has the recital process been for you? What did you do to prepare, and how do you feel about it all?
The process has been actually really fun for me. I’ve done a lot of research into the background of the compositions and composers, the characters, listened to many recordings, as well as developed storylines of my own for the art-songs. It takes a lot of time in and out of the practice room but I’ve loved it and I’m super excited.
If there’s only one thing you want audience members to get out of your recital, what would it be?
Opera and Early music are not as boring as some people make it out to be. They are super challenging, extremely expressive, and can connect to the modern world in a number of ways.