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Contact:
David Paul Mesler
(primary) 206.528.7464
(studio) 206.587.2012
Email: david@ihearamericasing.com
www.ihearamericasing.com
I Hear America Singing
“Brilliant” – Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
“Magnificent” – Benaroya Hall
“Unmistakable Passion” – Bainbridge Review
“Multiple Ovations” – Broadway Performance Hall
“Multiple Ovations” – Town Hall
“Gorgeous” – Classic KING-FM “Wonderful” – KPLU
“Critic’s Choice” – The Weekly
“Critic’s Choice” – The Stranger
“Critic’s Choice” – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Critic’s Choice” – Seattle Times
It’s Entertaining! “I Hear America Singing” presents highly
engaging concerts of original art songs written by acclaimed Northwest composer
David Paul Mesler and performed by the lustrous mezzo soprano Barbara Hume.
It’s Invigorating! With David as your virtuosic composer/pianist
and playful master of ceremonies, and Barbara as your versatile and theatrical
songstress, thrill to an evening of new art songs that explore the masculine
swagger and rugged individualism of Walt Whitman; the deep, penetrating insights
of Emily Dickinson; the gothic brooding and macabre wit of Edgar Allen Poe; the
syntactic innovations as well as euphoric romanticism of e.e. cummings; the
gargoyle smiles of Carl Sandburg; the gentle pastorals and philosophizing of
Robert Frost; and the gospel, blues and stomps of Langston Hughes.
It’s Fun! Family concerts are equally colorful and include brisk animal
portraits with texts by Ogden Nash and Theodore Roethke; the whimsical Rootabaga
Stories of Carl Sandburg; and the inimitable musings and cracked fables of James
Thurber.
It’s Educational! Concerts can represent a potpourri of poets and themes,
or they can concentrate on a single poets’ work. Composition master classes and
songwriting workshops are also available, and are frequently done as pre-concert
activities.
IT’S “I HEAR AMERICA SINGING!”
Technical Requirements:
Contact for requirements.
