Songs and Sonnets of the Americas
Leah Dexter
A program of poetry and music for piano and voice from North and South America including works by Ginastera, Guastavino, Piazzolla, Charles Ives and African American women composers Margaret Bonds, Lilian Evanti, Undine Moore and Florence Price. Highly dramatic and versatile mezzo-soprano Leah Dexter of Michigan Opera Theater and Harlem Opera Theater is the featured singer in a series of concerts. Fall 2007 midwestern locations TBA.
October 12, 2007: Shenson Recital Series at Stanford Univiersity in Palo Alto, CA.