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Concluding our Season of “Discoveries and Classics”

Our American Heritage

June 7, 8, 9

Our June concert will be great fun as BCG tours American music, from Colonial days to the present. Accompanied by Tim Getz, BCG’s wonderful accompanist, on virtuoso piano, we’ll spotlight the best music from our cultural history! In the first half we’ll sing works from the 18th to the 21st centuries by composers working in the “classical” tradition. After intermission, we’ll let our hair down and perform hits from a wide variety of American popular genres, including Broadway musicals, movie scores, jazz standards and spirituals. Join us for a wonderful concert of music by Billings, Barber, Berlin and much more!

Program for Our American Heritage

To Music
     William Billings: Modern Musik
     Steven Sametz: I Have Had Singing
     Dudley Buck: Hymn to Music
Peace and Quiet
     Aaron Copland: Simple Gifts
     Amy Beach: Peace I Leave With You
     Eric Whitacre: Sleep
American Classic
     Samuel Barber: Reincarnations: Mary Hines, Anthony O Daly, The Coolin
Sacred Sentiments
     Charles Ives: Sixty-Seventh Psalm
     Randall Thompson: Best of Rooms
     Aaron Copland: At the River
Intermission
Early Popular Song
     A Stephen Foster Medley
Musicals
     Richard Rodgers:  In Concert
     Leonard Bernstein: Something’s Coming/Tonight
Movies
     Johnny Mandel, arr. Sanford Dole: The Shadow of Your Smile
     Let’s Dance! The Songs of Irving Berlin
Jazz Standards 
    Billy Strayhorn: Take the A Train
Spiritual
     Moses Hogan:  Elijah Rock

Join us for a preview lecture a half hour before each concert.

Order tickets online or use our mail-in Ticket Order Form.

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