Songs for a Summer Night

Wed Jun 8, 2022
7:00pm ET
Age: All ages
Price: FREE
Location:
Waterline Square Park

MasterVoices celebrates its 80th anniversary with a free outdoor performance featuring several new arrangements demonstrating how the sounds of summer delight and inspire. Bring a blanket and a picnic. 

Performers include soprano Shereen Pimentel, who played Maria in the recent Broadway revival of West Side Story, and composer and tenor Tariq Al-Sabir.

Program to include:

  • Mendelssohn: Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in E major, Op. 21
  • Mendelssohn: Song with Choir (from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”)
  • des Prez: El Grillo
  • Schwartz/Strouse: Blame it on the Summer Night (from “Rags”)
  • Loesser: Song of a Summer Night (from “The Most Happy Fella”)
  • Ricky Ian Gordon: Three songs, New Moon, Summer, and Joy
  • Barber: Knoxville: Summer 1915
  • Berlioz: Excerpts from Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights), Villanelle and Le spectre de la rose
  • Sondheim: Night Music Waltz Suite, arr. Ted Sperling
  • Tariq Al-Sabir: Summers Are Growing Longer (World Premiere Commission)

Rain date is June 9.

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