North End Music & Performing Arts Center
presents
American Music Concert
"I have a dream..."
in celebration of Martin Luther King Day
North Bennet Street School
Boston, MA
January 16, 2015
7:30 p.m.
North Bennet Street School
Boston, MA
January 16, 2015
7:30 p.m.
Kristin Renee Young
The H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932) Homepage is at:
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which features a comprehensive Works List by Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.comTue. Dec. 30, 2014
The North End Performing Arts Winter Concert Series presents a
special American Music concert, ‘I have a Dream…’, in celebration of
Martin Luther King Day on Friday, January 16th, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. This
concert will celebrate the multiple dimensions of American identity
through a musical look at different aspects of the American dream. It
will showcase five American composers born between 1910 and 1960 who
have made significant contributions to twentieth-century American music.
This one-hour tribute concert will take the listener on a journey
that moves from German Romanticism into American modernity with Samuel
Barber’s Cello Sonata, and continues through the deeply moving voices of
three American poets in Richard Pearson Thomas’ tribute to 9/11, “Race
for the Sky” for soprano, violin and piano.
The godfather of American twentieth century music, Elliott Carter,
continued to evolve his vision of the American dream through his 1948
pinnacle work, the Cello Sonata, of which select movements will be
heard. A celebratory and profound selection of African American songs
from Leslie Adams and Jean Berger, with poetry by Langston Hughes, round
out the program for the evening, which promises to be a special, timely
concert with which to begin the New Year.
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