Events

Open workshop on the songs of American composers Margaret Bonds and Florence Price with Dr. Louise Toppin (University of Michigan) and Christie Finn (Hampsong Foundation)
Part of the Internationale Hugo Wolf Akademie's renowned competition

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an intensive exploration of the repertoire of African American, African and African Diaspora concert composers for the university student, apprentice, teacher (private, high school or university), coach, choral conductor, church musician, professional singer, or organization administrator. The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

To take part in this conference online, please send an email to: [email protected]

Events include: master class with Dr. Caroline Helton and Ray M. Wade Jr.; panel discussions; and a roundtable conversation.

Part of the Singing Justice Conference

To take part in this conference online, please send an email to: [email protected]

Events include: Keynote addresses by Dr. Cornelia Bartsch and Dr. Naomi André; Seminar Recital performances; panel discussions; and an evening recital Singing Justice: An Interactive Recital.

Part of the Singing Justice Conference

To take part in this conference online, please send an email to: [email protected]

3:30pm – 5:30pm Central European (10:30am-12:30pm Eastern): Master class with Dr. Caroline Helton and Ray M. Wade, Jr.

Master class to be held in OPR at the HMDK Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart

Part of the Singing Justice Conference

The Hampsong Foundation is pleased to provide the live-stream coverage of the 25th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference on Oct. 13-16, 2022. The conference is presented by the African American Art Song Alliance, an advocacy organization representing Black composers of Western classical art songs.

The Hampsong Foundation is pleased to provide the live-stream coverage of the 25th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference on Oct. 13-16, 2022. The conference is presented by the African American Art Song Alliance, an advocacy organization representing Black composers of Western classical art songs.

The Hampsong Foundation is pleased to provide the live-stream coverage of the 25th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference on Oct. 13-16, 2022. The conference is presented by the African American Art Song Alliance, an advocacy organization representing Black composers of Western classical art songs.

The Hampsong Foundation is pleased to provide the live-stream coverage of the 25th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference on Oct. 13-16, 2022. The conference is presented by the African American Art Song Alliance, an advocacy organization representing Black composers of Western classical art songs.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is an adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is a four-day adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative. For 2021, this institute will be administered completely online.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is a four-day adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative. For 2021, this institute will be administered completely online.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is a four-day adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative. For 2021, this institute will be administered completely online.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is a four-day adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative. For 2021, this institute will be administered completely online.

The "Singing Down the Barriers" Institute is a four-day adult summer intensive of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and is offered in partnership with the Hampsong Foundation via the Classic Song Research Initiative. For 2021, this institute will be administered completely online.

An event of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance (U-M SMTD)

An event of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance (U-M SMTD)

An event of the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance (U-M SMTD)

The Classic Song Research Initiative, a partnership between the Hampsong Foundation and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, formally launched its first exploration of "The Art of Democracy" with a series of conversations in June 2020. On July 4, 2020, the project will continue with a web feature offering a glimpse into some works of art that ask questions of our American democratic experiment, many of which are related to the conversations last month. Two special musical works, presented for limited viewing/listening, explore the words of two great American leaders: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. You can watch these events live online on July 4, 2020: -11am Eastern / 17h Central European: Adolphus Hailstork's Songs of Love and Justice (1992), setting the words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (introduction to the work by Dr. Louise Toppin); -2pm Eastern / 20h Central European: Michael Daugherty's Letters from Lincoln (2009), featuring special conversations with the composer as well as conductor Laura Jackson The events will be broadcast live on the Hampsong Foundation's Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/hampsong.foundation/ These audio/video presentations will be available on Facebook, and subsequently on the Hampsong Foundation website, for one week following the live broadcasts (until July 11). In addition, we will feature some work by the artists and scholars who joined our June 2020 "The Art of Democracy" conversation series, including Dr. Bill Banfield, Dr. Maria Corley, Dr. Caroline Helton, Dr. Emery Stephens and Dr. Louise Toppin.

More soon!

The Classic Song Research Initiative’s first formal collaboration continues on June 18 with another Facebook Live conversation in the series The Art of Democracy on the topic "The Songs of African American Composers." This second session will feature special guests Dr. Bill Banfield, Dr. Maria Corley, and Dr. Louise Toppin. More information here

Baritone Thomas Hampson and musicologist Mark Clague (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) give an overview of the June 2020 "The Art of Democracy: Song in America" Conversation Series and then discuss the role of song as a tool for conversation and civic discourse, especially in regards to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Additional guests include musicologist Susan Key, among others. This is part of the Classic Song Research Initiative, a partnership between the Hampsong Foundation and the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

E4TT performs our annual commissions concert on International Women's Day.

Musicians: Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Anne Lerner-Wright, cello; Dale Tsang, piano; with guest artists Laura Reynolds, English horn, and Ilana Blumberg, violin.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a concert of music featuring 20th and 21st century African American composers. This concert will be sung by four young artists who are African American opera singers. Two of our singers will recently have performed in "Porgy and Bess" at the Metropolitan Opera, and two were recently in the premier of "Stonewall" with the New York City Opera. They will be accompanied by Dr. Maria Corley, Lancaster's finest collaborative pianist. Also a composer, we will be featuring several of Dr. Corley's songs in the concert. The concert will take place at The Ware Center of Millersville University.

Ensemble for These Times performs the World Premiere of Chinese composer Weiwei Miao's "Blooming Flowers, Full Moon" for piano trio, along with works by 8 living women composers.

Musicians: Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Anne Lerner-Wright, cello; Dale Tsang, piano; and guest violinist Ilana Blumberg

Music by Polish and immigrant Hollywood composers of the 40s to the present

Also: Tuesday, Oct. 15, 12 p.m., Cafe Europa (Berkeley), FREE, location TBD, and
Thursday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m., Paderewski Festival, Cass Winery, Paso Robles (without the Moore and Garner)

Musicians: Nanette McGuinness, soprano, Anne Lerner-Wright, cello, and guest pianist Karen Rosenak.

“Reflecting on the Past…Reaching toward the Future, II” for composers, performers and scholars. Featuring performances and panels. Hosted by Dr. Louise Toppin, Videmus, and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance. (See detailed description from Sept. 12, 2019)

“Reflecting on the Past…Reaching toward the Future, II” for composers, performers and scholars. Featuring performances and panels. Hosted by Dr. Louise Toppin, Videmus, and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance. (See detailed description from Sept. 12, 2019)

“Reflecting on the Past…Reaching toward the Future, II” for composers, performers and scholars. Featuring performances and panels. Hosted by Dr. Louise Toppin, Videmus, and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance. (See detailed description from Sept. 12, 2019)

“Reflecting on the Past…Reaching toward the Future, II” for composers, performers and scholars. Featuring performances and panels. Hosted by Dr. Louise Toppin, Videmus, and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance. This conference focuses on the curation of music of the African Diaspora for future research and performance. Through a series of lectures, panels and performances by leading scholars, composers and performers, attendees will discuss rediscovered operas (Freeman, Perry, Boatner and White); have conversations on the newly created operas on African American themes; hear a workshop performance of Edmonia by William Banfield; discuss sociopolitical musical thought, and the 400 year suite (commemorating 400 years since the beginning of slavery); discuss innovations in art song curation; discuss institutional aspects of diverse faculty and student development; composer discussions about the creation and delivery of African American music; explore the work of composer/preachers; creating sustainable organizations for African American music; discuss the salon for building black musical thought and much more. Featured presentations by Dr. Kyra Gaunt, Dr. Tammy Kernodle, Dr. Naomi André and Dr. Mark Lomax lead an illustrious lineup of presenters and performers.

Beloved American baritone Thomas Hampson opens the American Songbook to explore the influential people and monumental events that helped create and define “the land of the free.” Guiding the audience through centuries of stories, Mr. Hampson will share personal anecdotes and readings, offering a rich context within which to celebrate America’s history of song. Pianist Lara Downes and The Beyond Liberty Players join him.

Composer Laura Kaminsky curates and hosts a salon of contemporary songs by LGBT identified composers and librettists. Featuring the world premiere of a collaboratively created song cycle by Kaminsky, Jennifer Higdon, Laura Karpman, Paula Kimper, Nora Kroll Rosenbaum, and new face on the scene, Kayla Cashetta, who will all set new poems by Elaine Sexton. The evening will also include a performance of Fierce Grace: Jeannette Rankin by mezzo-soprano Heather Johnson and pianist Mila Henry, with libretto by Kimberly Reed and contributions from Kaminsky, Karpman, Kitty Brazelton, and Ellen Reid. (Opera America commission; 2017 world premiere was at Library of Congress). A co-presentation with Five Boroughs Music Festival and the LGBT Center, in honor of Pride Month and the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

The competition is open to singers of all ethnicities and African American composers.

CSI presents snapshots of our nation's unique song style and its evolution over time. Includes songs by Burleigh, Duke, Ives, Thomson, Cipullo, Barber, Larsen, and Recio.

Celebrating American art song composer Juliana Hall, with works by her mentors and a world premiere by the composer herself.

When you think of how this land is ours, what do you feel? Pride, wonder, comfort and excitement. Ours is a sung celebration of urban, suburban, and rural life - its moods, landscapes and sounds. Featured is music by immigrants (Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Erich Korngold), women (Ruth Crawford Seeger, Francine Trester), and African Americans (Adolphus Hailstork, Brittney Boykin, Florence Price and Leslie Adams), as well as by classic American composers (Charles Ives, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and Pete Seeger).

The Sparks & Wiry Cries Denver songSLAM is a unique competition for emerging composer/performer teams to premiere new art song, in partnership with Denver Art Song Project. In the poetry-slam tradition, audience members vote on their favorite performances, and $2,000 in cash prizes are awarded.

The Sparks & Wiry Cries Chicago songSLAM is a unique competition for emerging composer/performer teams to premiere new art song in partnership with Fourth Coast Ensemble. In the poetry-slam tradition, audience members vote on their favorite performances, and $2,000 in cash prizes are awarded.

When you think of how this land is ours, what do you feel? Pride, wonder, comfort and excitement. Ours is a sung celebration of urban, suburban, and rural life - its moods, landscapes and sounds. Featured is music by immigrants (Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Erich Korngold), women (Ruth Crawford Seeger, Francine Trester), and African Americans (Adolphus Hailstork, Brittney Boykin, Florence Price and Leslie Adams), as well as by classic American composers (Charles Ives, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and Pete Seeger).

Program to include Schumann's Dichterliebe and the Washington premiere of Cycles of My Being, a new song cycle composed for Lawrence Brownlee by Tyshawn Sorey.

VOCES Intimae's popular concert, Round Up of Texas Art Song Composers, is back! Y'all join us and tap your toes to music by David Featherstone, Quinn Mason, Duilio Dobrin, Allie Simpkins and more.

When you think of how this land is ours, what do you feel? Pride, wonder, comfort and excitement. Ours is a sung celebration of urban, suburban, and rural life - its moods, landscapes and sounds. Featured is music by immigrants (Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Erich Korngold), women (Ruth Crawford Seeger, Francine Trester), and African Americans (Adolphus Hailstork, Brittney Boykin, Florence Price and Leslie Adams), as well as by classic American composers (Charles Ives, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and Pete Seeger).

Featuring travel songs by Barber, Berlioz, Blangini, Duparc, Haydn, Poulenc and Schubert, the Mirror Visions Ensemble sings its way to far-flung destinations, real and imaginary. MVE commissions by Tom Cipullo and Gilda Lyons round out the program, with settings of the poetry of Baudelaire, Joyce and Metastasio, and the correspondence of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The Song of America Teacher Workshop, co-sponsored by the Spokane Symphony, offers an interdisciplinary exploration of American history and culture through classic song. This workshop is designed for K-12 Language Arts, English, Social Studies, and Performing Arts educators, as well college instructors, teaching artists and college students preparing to teach K-12. Educators can earn clock hours with this workshop. To register for the workshop, teachers must contact the Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox box office at (509) 624-1200.

Denver Art Song Project’s curator, Stephanie Ann Ball, takes you through a journey of modern African-American art songs that transcend the genre. Experience the unexpected sounds of modern composers who reflect on texts and poetry. Hear the breadth of music from spirituals to modern art songs in this inspiring production.

Denver Art Song Project’s curator, Stephanie Ann Ball, takes you through a journey of modern African-American art songs that transcend the genre. Experience the unexpected sounds of modern composers who reflect on texts and poetry. Hear the breadth of music from spirituals to modern art songs in this inspiring production.

Denver Art Song Project’s curator, Stephanie Ann Ball, takes you through a journey of modern African-American art songs that transcend the genre. Experience the unexpected sounds of modern composers who reflect on texts and poetry. Hear the breadth of music from spirituals to modern art songs in this inspiring production.

Denver Art Song Project’s curator, Stephanie Ann Ball, takes you through a journey of modern African-American art songs that transcend the genre. Experience the unexpected sounds of modern composers who reflect on texts and poetry. Hear the breadth of music from spirituals to modern art songs in this inspiring production.

We honor composers from abroad who have based their musical lives in the US along with first-generation American composers whose close links to their parents’ homelands can be heard through their compositions.

Old American Songs (Sets I and II), 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson Kristina Bachrach, soprano; Dominic Armstrong, tenor; Jorell Williams, baritone; Michael Brofman, Brent Funderburk piano Free pre-concert lecture at 7:00PM by Patricia Mainardi (CUNY)

MVE performs its commission from composer Francine Trester, inspired by the etchings of recluse artist Sheridan Oman of the American Southwest.

Final event of the 2019 songSLAM FESTIVAL
Sopranos Jennifer Holloway, Kamala Sankaram, Karen Slack
Mezzo-sopranos Margaret Lattimore, Naomi O'Connell
Pianists Lydia Brown, Kathleen Kelly

Featuring a world premiere song cycle by Natalie Draper with texts by Judy Grahn

3rd event of the 2019 songSLAM FESTIVAL
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe & pianist Alan Louis Smith
Soprano Maggie Finnegan & pianist Daniel Overly

Featuring world-premiere song cycles by Juliana Hall and Scott Gendel

2nd event of the 2019 songSLAM FESTIVAL
Songs featuring the words of poet and lyricist Mark Campbell
Soprano Martha Guth, baritone Jesse Blumberg, and pianist Erika Switzer

Featuring world premiere song cycles by Mark Baechle and Kamala Sankaram

1st event of the 2019 songSLAM FESTIVAL. The flagship event for Sparks & Wiry Cries, the NYC songSLAM is a unique competition for emerging composer/performer teams to premiere new art song. In the poetry-slam tradition, audience members vote on their favorite performances, and $2,000 in cash prizes are awarded.

The Sparks & Wiry Cries Toronto songSLAM is a unique competition for emerging composer/performer teams to premiere new art song, in partnership with Women on the Verge. In the poetry-slam tradition, audience members vote on their favorite performances, and $2,000 in cash prizes are awarded.

The Sparks & Wiry Cries Minneapolis songSLAM is a unique competition for emerging composer/performer teams to premiere new art song, in partnership with Source Song Festival. In the poetry-slam tradition, audience members vote on their favorite performances, and $900 in cash prizes are awarded.

Poems of Love and the Rain, War Scenes, Selected Songs Sarah Brailey, soprano; Annie Rosen; mezzo-soprano; Steven Eddy, baritone; Dashon Barton, bass-baritone; Michael Brofman, Daniel Schlosberg, Danny Zelibor, piano Free pre-concert lecture at 7:00PM by Russell Platt (New Yorker)

Includes a performance of Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs"

Castle of our Skins is excited to honor legendary singer Roland Hayes as part of the Front Porch Arts Collective and Lyric Stage Company of Boston's production of Daniel Beaty's "Breath and Imagination". The celebration will include spirituals and art songs championed by Hayes and a world premiere created by youth.

Includes a performance of Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs"

Program to include selections by W.A. Mozart, Richard Strauss, Sergei Rachmaninov, Jake Heggie, and Bruce Adolphe, as well as zarzuela arias and spirituals arrangements

Program to include songs by Ravel, Mahler, Falla, Ned Rorem, Richard Danielpour, and selected spirituals arranged by Bonds, Johnson, and Moore

Castle of our Skins is excited to honor legendary singer Roland Hayes as part of the Front Porch Arts Collective and Lyric Stage Company of Boston's production of Daniel Beaty's "Breath and Imagination". The celebration will include spirituals and art songs championed by Hayes and a world premiere created by youth.

An Event of the Harry T. Burleigh Society--Co-sponsored by the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture

A performance of selections from the AIDS Quilt Songbook, 1992 to the present. Ticket purchases go 100% to the support of Joshua Tree Feeding Program, an all-volunteer food pantry serving persons living with HIV/AIDS in Maricopa county. This performance takes place at a display of panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, and launches a week of local AIDS awareness and commemorative events.

Program to include selections by Holst, Vaughan Williams, Ives, Berlin, Speaks, Novello, Rachmaninov and others.

The Daisies Op. 2 no. 1, Dover Beach Op. 3, 3 Songs Op. 10, 4 Songs Op. 13 Hermit Songs Op. 29, Despite and Still Op. 41, 3 Songs Op. 45 Lucy Fitz-Gibbon, soprano; Samantha Malk, mezzo-soprano; Steven Eddy, Mario Diaz-Moresco, Brian Mextorf, baritone; Michael Brofman, Spencer Myer, piano; Members of PhiloSonia Free pre-concert lecture at 7:00PM by Nick DiBeradino (Curtis Institute)

The Sparks & Wiry Cries songSLAM is a unique competition for emerging composer/performer teams to premiere new art song, in partnership with the Kerrytown Concert House, and Mc’d by Kathleen Kelly. In the poetry-slam tradition, audience members vote on their favorite performances, and $2,000 in cash prizes are awarded.

Recital of songs by American composer Juliana Hall--part of CollabFest 2018

Christine Brewer will perform works by Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Richard Rodgers, Sidney Homer, Celius Dougherty, Paul Sargent, Harold Arlen, Ernest Charles and Frank Bridge.

Selected Songs Including "The Children’s Hour," "General Booth Enters into Heaven," and "The Housatonic at Stockbridge"

Laetitia Grimaldi, Elisabeth Marshall, soprano; Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano; Timothy Fallon, tenor; Michael Kelly, Will Liverman, baritone; Michael Brofman Ammiel Bushekavitz, piano

Free pre-concert lecture at 7:00PM by composer Daniel Felsenfeld

Reflecting the season-long theme, The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood will spotlight Bernstein's wide-ranging talents as a composer, his many gifts as a great interpreter and champion of other composers, and his role as an inspirer of a new generation of musicians and music lovers across the country and around the globe. The gala concert will feature a kaleidoscopic array of artists and ensembles from the worlds of classical music, film, and Broadway.

Beloved American baritone Thomas Hampson opens the American Songbook to explore the influential people and monumental events that helped create and define “the land of the free.” Guiding the audience through centuries of stories, Mr. Hampson tells personal anecdotes and offers historical monologues and readings of his favorite poetry, offering rich context with which to celebrate America’s history of song. Written with Royce Vavrek and developed with Francesca Zambello, “Beyond Liberty” will travel to all 50 states after its premiere at Glimmerglass.

The two-day Song of America workshop offers an interdisciplinary exploration of American history and culture through two artistic forms: classic song (poetry set to music) and visual art (as represented by the holdings of the Fenimore Art Museum). Educators will engage in hands-on activities, participate in interactive presentations, and experience live performances of music as well as of pieces in the museum collection.

The two-day Song of America workshop (Aug. 16-17, 2018) offers an interdisciplinary exploration of American history and culture through two artistic forms: classic song (poetry set to music) and visual art (as represented by the holdings of the Fenimore Art Museum). Educators will engage in hands-on activities, participate in interactive presentations, and experience live performances of music as well as of pieces in the museum collection. The workshop will culminate in the preparation of lesson plans and activities specific to the grades and subjects of participating educators which integrate the arts with humanities topics. Ideal for K-12 Language Arts, English, Social Studies, and Performing Arts Educators. Special topics will include Native American culture, Alexander Hamilton/Early America, the Civil War, North American folk movements, and African American history of the 20th century.

Part of the “Creating Memorable Introductions to Music” series–only available to teachers selected for the 2017-2018 program.