The Boston Symphony Years

Susan spent a number of years singing with the Boston Symphony, both at Symphony Hall in Boston and at their summer home in Tanglewood. Here is a partial repertoire list from those years:

1971 season - Spanisches Liederbuch by Hugo Wolf: Part 2 Weltliche Lieder:
Tief im Herzen trag’ich Pein
Komm, o Tod, von Nacht umgeben
Ob auch finstere Blicke glitten
Bedeckt mich mit Blumen
Wer tat deinem Füßlein weh?

1971 season - Samson et Delila by Camille Saint-Saëns:
Aria, Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix

1971 season - Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé by Maurice Ravel

1972 season - Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major by Gustav Mahler: Symphony of 1000

1974 season - Stabat Mater by Gioachino Rossini

The Performance Years

Susan Clickner appeared as a soloist with the The Buffalo Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Lyric Opera . She was a soloist with the Trenton Symphony at The Metropolitan Opera and also performed at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Seiji Ozawa becoming a fellow at Tanglewood for several years. Susan thoroughly enjoyed her many summers at Tanglewood and was asked by Seiji Ozawa to appear as soloist with the Boston Symphony in a performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. She appeared again with the Boston Symphony at Symphony Hall in a performance of Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Susan recorded with Folkways Records and performed extensively throughout the United States, including at Lincoln Center in New York City. She also sang the leading roles in two television opera premières, Ned Rorem’s “A Childhood Miracle” and Zimbalist’s “Landara”.

After relocating to Massachusetts as a single mother with three small children, she became a founding faculty member of the Worcester Performing Arts School and started the voice department at Clark University, where she worked and performed from 1970 to 1983. In 1972 she joined the voice faculty at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. During this time, Susan was invited on a European tour by Gunther Schuller and the New England Conservatory Orchestra and Chorus as soloist performing at various leading classical music festivals including Lucerne, Lugano, Salzburg, the Mazamet Bach Festival of France, as well as an appearance at the Eglise de Saint Roch and Paris Opera.