Alchemy: American Art Songs—Ives to Ornette

Event Dates
David Friend Recital Hall (DFRH)
921 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02115
United States
Admission
Free

Alchemy celebrates the beautifully blurred line between classical and popular music. Vocalist Rebecca Shrimpton and pianist/composer Herman Weiss perform American art songs by jazz and classical composers, including Charles Ives, Ornette Coleman, Florence Price, and Duke Ellington, as well as new original works. These uniquely American songs bend genre boundaries by uniting masterly compositional structures with traditional hymns, spirituals, early popular tunes, blues, and jazz.