All in a day’s work: DC to the Green for singer Jayson Greenberg

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You think it’s hard singing the works of Robert Schumann in German?

Try doing it after you’ve been driving since the crack of dawn from the nation’s capital.

Jayson Greenberg and Charity Wicks, from Fridays on the Green in Morristow. Photo by Kevin Coughlin
Jayson Greenberg and Charity Wicks, from Fridays on the Green in Morristow. Photo by Kevin Coughlin

That’s what tenor Jayson Greenberg did on Friday, singing Dichterliebe at the Presbyterian Church’s lunchtime Fridays on the Green series after a 6 a.m. start from Washington, DC.  He sang Brahms at the Library of Congress on Thursday night in a concert by renowned pianists Leon and Katherine Fleisher.

“I was home by 10 (a.m.), took a half-hour nap, took a shower, and came here,” said Jayson, eager to grab lunch with his family after the half-hour noontime performance.

Friday’s piano duties were handled with flair by Charity Wicks, interim music director at the Presbyterian Church.

Jayson, an Essex Fells resident, started as a paid chorister at the Presbyterian Church about a decade ago, when he was 16.  As part of his musical education he has studied French, Italian, German and Russian–the latter being the hardest to sing, he said.

German, he loves.

“It runs from two extremes, from very lyrical lines to really separated consonants,” Jayson said. “It can be very angry, very loving or very nostalgic…it gives you more options than other languages.”

 

Jayson Greenberg sings Schumann, accompanied by Charity Wicks, at the Presbyterian Church in Morristown. Photo by Kevin Coughlin
Jayson Greenberg sings Schumann, accompanied by Charity Wicks, at the Presbyterian Church in Morristown. Photo by Kevin Coughlin

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