Performance Santa Fe presents
Susan Graham, mezzo soprano, and the Music from Copland House Ensemble
, February 16, 2023 7:30PM
Event Summary
Susan Graham, mezzo soprano,
and the Music from Copland House Ensemble
Item details
Date
February 16, 2023 7:30PM
Location
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Name
Performance Santa Fe presents
Susan Graham, mezzo soprano, and the Music from Copland House Ensemble
Description
A Standing Witness is a monumental new collaboration between Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, created especially for the incomparable mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and the celebrated Music from Copland House Ensemble. The soaring music and probing poetry of this epic cycle for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble is a sweeping retrospective tracing enormous social, cultural, technological, and political upheavals in the U.S. since the watershed year of 1968. Rapturously received in premiere performances at the Kennedy Center, the University of Chicago, and elsewhere around the U.S., there is no more timely or provocative work for this pivotal moment in American history.
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE
6:30 pm - Discussion with Michael Boriskin, Richard Danielpour, and Rita Dove onstage at the Lensic
Program:
Pierre Jalbert
Crossings
John Harbison
Songs America Loves to Sing
Richard Danielpour
A Standing Witness
Presented through the generosity of Michelle Midyette and Season Sponsors Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily; Leah Gordon
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