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Chamber Music Sedona Presents William Bolcom and Joan Morris
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Chamber Music Sedona proudly presents William Bolcom and Joan Morris. The concert will be held on Sunday, January 10, 2010, beginning at 2:30 p.m., at the St. John Vianney Church. Named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America and honored with multiple Grammy Awards for his ground-breaking setting of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Bolcom is a composer of cabaret songs, concertos, sonatas, operas, symphonies, and much more who was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. With his wife mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, he has performed in concert for more than 30 years throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad. In addition to performing together, Bolcom and Morris have recorded two dozen albums together. Their first one, After the Ball, garnered a Grammy nomination for Joan Morris. Their most recent recordings are two albums of songs by lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg and Gus Kahn on Original Cast Records and Bolcom’s complete Cabaret Songs, written with lyricist Arnold Weinstein, on Centaur. Recent premieres include his Canciones de Lorca with tenor Placido Domingo, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and conductor Carl St. Clair at the gala opening concert of the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Orange Country Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA (September 15, 2006) and Nine New Bagatelles, commissioned by Friends of New Music/Music Teachers’ Association of California and premiered by four student pianists in Los Angeles (July 2, 2006). In February 2008, his Eighth Symphony was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in three performances conducted by James Levine in Boston, MA and a subsequent performance in Carnegie Hall. Mezzo-soprano Joan Morris attended Gonzaga University in Spokane prior to her scholarship studies at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She continued speech and voice studies with Clifford Jackson and Frederica Schmitz-Svevo while appearing in off-Broadway and road productions and with harpist Jay Miller at the Cafe Carlyle, the Waldorf-Astoria’s Peacock Alley, and other Manhattan night spots.Since 1973 Joan Morris has concertized with her husband and accompanist, William Bolcom, singing popular songs from the late 19th-century through the 1920s and ’30s, the latest songs by Leiber and Stoller, and cabaret songs by Bolcom and poet-lyricist Arnold Weinstein. In the words of the Chicago Tribune, “Her voice is notable for ease, flexibility, expressiveness; you understand every word she sings, and in these songs the words deserve to be heard. She projects not just a song, but the character singing it, and gives that character her own irresistibly funny and winning personality.” On their travels throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad, Joan Morris and William Bolcom frequently give master classes focusing on "classic American popular song." Recent residencies have been at Rice University (Houston, TX), Central Washington University (Ellensburg, WA), the Virginia Arts Festival, Tanglewood, and the University of Evansviille (IN). Bolcom & Morris Performance: American Song and Cabaret Music of Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Bolcom and John Musto General admission tickets are $25 and reserved seats $40 and may be purchased by calling Chamber Music Sedona at 928.204.2415. Tickets are available by calling 928.204.2415 or at the following outlets: Bashas’ in Sedona Rycus’ Corners in the Village of Oak Creek Arizona Music Pro and Cedar Music in Flagstaff Planet Video and Music in Cottonwood Think For Ink in Prescott Coming next: The Zimro Project, January 24. Residency January 20-24. For more information call 928.204.2415, email SedonaCMS@aol.com, or visit www.ChamberMusicSedona.org. |
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When: 2:30 PM Where: St. John Vianney Church, 180 Soldiers Pass Road, Sedona Phone: 928.204.2415 Contact: www.ChamberMusicSedona.org Don't keep it to yourself. Tell everyone you know! Subscribe now! Get Sedona news and events delivered right to your email. (Your privacy is protected. No spam ever, and you can unsubscribe at any time.) |
