Bass Baritone Dashon Burton in Recital at Peabody Hall, All Saints' Church

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Bass baritone Dashon Burton in Recital
with Christopher Walter, piano

Tickets: Adult: $25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3, children under 13 free

Program: A Poet Speaks
John Dowland - In This Trembling Shadow, No. 12 from A Pilgrimes Solace
Robert Schumann - Dichterliebe, (A Poet's Love), Opus 48
Scott Perkins - Riddle Songs, No. 24 (Solution: jay), No. 47 (Solution: bookworm)
Selections from Francis Poulenc - Chansons Villageoises
Spirituals and Gospel Songs
William Bolcom, Blue from Cabaret Songs, Volume 4, No. 6

Praised for his "nobility and rich tone," (The New York Times) and his "enormous, thrilling voice seemingly capable ... [of] raising the dead;" (Wall Street Journal), bass-baritone Dashon Burton has appeared in the Brahms Requiem and Beethoven’s Symphony #9 with Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra in the last two seasons; also the Mozart Requiem in the summer season at Severance Hall. Burton’s recent release, Songs of Struggle & Redemption: We Shall Overcome, was included on the New York Times The Best Classical Musical Recordings of 2016 list. Mr. Burton is a founding member of the 2013 Grammy Award-winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth.

Public contact name: 

Mary Beth Alger

Public contact phone number or e-mail address: 

alger.marybeth@gmail.com