American Art Songs
by Ives, Bowles, Bolcom, Price, Strayhorn, Ellington
Classical mezzo soprano & jazz vocalist, Rebecca Shrimpton, and pianist & composer, Herman Weiss, present art songs inspired by American popular music, including works by Charles Ives, William Bolcom, Florence Price, and Paul Bowles, interwoven with original arrangements of classically influenced "tone poems" by jazz masters, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington.
Current dates:
Sept 28 Berk Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music, 7 pm
May 21 Weston Public Library, 3 pm
April 16 Quincy Point Congregational Church, 1:30pm
March 25 First Baptist Church of Medford, 7:30pm
March 24 Private Venue, Nahant, 7 pm
Program repertoire selected from:
Paul Bowles' "Blue Mountain Ballads":
Heavenly Grass
Lonesome Man
Cabin
Sugar in the Cane
Charles Ives:
Things Our Fathers Loved
At the River
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
Memories
Florence Price:
Because
Monologue for the Working Class
Bewilderment
My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord
William Grant Still: Grief
Charles S. Brown: Song Without Words
William Bolcom's "Cabaret Songs":
Blue
Black Max
Waitin'
Radical Sally
Billy Strayhorn:
A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing, arr Herman Weiss
Passion Flower/Fleurette Africaine (Ellington), lyrics Rebecca
Shrimpton, arr. Herman Weiss
Duke Ellington:
T.G.T.T.
Hank Cinq (Sonnet 128), arr Herman Weiss
George Russell arr.: All the Things You Are (Kern)
