Lundi musical de l'Athénée : Frederick Ballentine et Kunal Lahiry

Our People
Le ténor Frederick Ballentine, détenteur d'un Grammy award, et le pianiste Kunal Lahiry proposent Our people et en parlent ainsi : "Ce programme explore le parcours des Noirs et des communautés LGBT d'Amérique du Nord. Notre séparation du tout. Notre oppression constante. Nos amours et nos âmes perdues. Mais surtout notre résilience".

Programme :

"Shut me out"
Traditional spiritual "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child"
Copland "Twelve songs of Emily Dickinson: Nature! The gentlest mother"
William Bolcom "George"
Copland "Twelve songs of Emily Dickinson: Why do they shut me out of heaven?"
Schubert "Memnon"
Margaret Bonds "The Dream Portraits: Minstrel Man"
Arr. Margaret Bonds Lord, "I just can't keep from crying"
"Going up in smoke"
David Krakauer "The 80's Miracle Diet"
John Musto "Heartbeats"
Ricky Ian Gordon "I never knew"
Lewis Allan, arr. Pablo Campos" Strange Fruit"
Requiem arr.
Earl Wild Virtuouso Etudes after Gershwin: "The Man I Love"
John Musto "Shadow of the blues: Litany"
Henry Purcell "When I am laid in earth" from Dido and Aeneas
"So Loud, So Proud"
Ricky Ian "Gordon My People"
Sergei Rachmaninoff "Spring Waters, Op 14, No 11"
Nina Simone, Lyrics by Langston Hughes arr. Pablo Campos "Backlash Blues"