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Songs of America

SONGS OF AMERICA

28.08.2022 | 19:00

Turku Concert Hall

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Programme

FREIHEIT

I.
Gustav Mahler: Lied des verfolgten im Turm (des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Alexander Zemlinsky: Mit Trommeln und Pfeifen; Op 8 (von Liliencron)

Gustav Mahler: Revelge (des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Paul Hindemith: O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor (Walt Whitman)

Charles Ives: Tom Sails Away (Charles Ives), The things our Fathers Loves (Charles Ives), In Flanders Fields (John McCrae)

Kurt Weill: Dirge for two Veterans (Walt Whitman)

— Interval –

LIBERTY

II.
Henry Burleigh: Ethiopia Saluting the Colors (Walt Whitman)

Arthur Farwell: Song of the Deathless Voice (trad Native American)

Michael Daugherty: Letter to Mrs Bixby (Abraham Lincoln)

Jennifer Higdon: The Death of Lincoln (William Cullen Bryant)

Margaret Bonds: The negro speaks of rivers

Jean Berger: Lonely People (Langston Hughes)

Margaret Bonds: I.too

Leonard Bernstein: To what you said (Walt Whitman)

Thomas Hampson baritone
Vlad Iftinca piano

Tickets 60 | 55 | 40 €

Duration 2 h, 1 intermission

American baritone Thomas Hampson returns to Turku to give a recital. Titled ‘Songs of America’, it comprises American repertoire that Hampson wishes to promote. The programme is a brilliant musical panorama of American melodies.

Tickets that have already been purchased or reserved for 2021 will be valid with no further action in 2022.

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