POTSDAM -- SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will host a faculty recital featuring Franz Schubert's masterpiece song cycle, "Die Schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Maid of the Mill)," on March 2 at 7:30 p.m., in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

Pianist Eugenia Tsarov and tenor Donald George, both members of the Crane faculty, will present the full song cycle in this special recital.

In this masterpiece, Schubert set Wilhelm Müller's poems to depict the relationships between a miller, the narrator and the miller's daughter, whose love ultimately leads the narrator to suicidal despair.

The cycle's protagonist, a journeyman miller, sings of the joys of his lifestyle, wandering from town to town, taking work at a mill and moving on, just like the babbling waters of the brook, which is his constant companion. The piano depicts the motions of the mill-wheel, the rippling water and the miller's turbulent emotional state throughout the gripping drama, even ending the tragedy after the death of the hapless protagonist in a moving lullaby to the miller rocking in its depths.