Opera…From a Sistah’S Point of View

PROGRAM: OPERA…FROM A SISTAH’S POINT OF VIEW SUNDAY, FEBRUARY )', )($- ! ):'( PM ! BING CONCERT HALL OPERA…FROM A SISTAH’S POINT OF VIEW ARTISTS PROGRAM Angela Brown, soprano Richard Wagner: “Dich, teure Halle” from Tannhäuser (1845) Kelleen Strutz, piano Giacomo Puccini: “Vissi d’arte” from Tosca (1899) Giuseppe Verdi: “Ritorno vincitor” from Aida (1845) George Gershwin: “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess (1935) “My Man’s Gone Now” from Porgy and Bess *INTERMISSION* Richard Danielpour: A Woman’s Life (I–IV) (2007) John Carter: Cantata “Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells” “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” “Let Us Break Bread Together” “Ride on, King Jesus” PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn o+ all phones, pagers, and watch alarms, and unwrap all lozenges prior to the performance. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. (+ STANFORD LIVE MAGAZINE JANUARY-FEBRUARY ")!* ANGELA BROWN Center of the Jacobs School of Music Angela Brown personifies the ideal at Indiana University and is available American dramatic soprano with her for download via Amazon.com and sheer vocal power, luxurious finesse, iTunes.com and as a compact disc. shimmering, high pianissimos, and charming personality larger than life. A noted interpreter of African- Her highly successful Metropolitan American spirituals, Brown Opera debut in 2004 sparked media produced Mosaic, a collaborative excitement, with several sparkling recording featuring spirituals with reviews: “At last an Aida” (New York guitar and piano, in October 2004, Times); “She combines a potent, dusky available from Albany Records. lower register with a striking ability to A live Christmas concert with the spin out soft high notes of shimmering Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra beauty. There’s no doubt her voice is and Indianapolis Opera Chorus powerful enough for Verdi” (Associated was recorded by WFYI-PBS in 2005 Press); and “The future of opera has and airs on PBS television stations KELLEEN STRUTZ arrived” (CBS Evening News). She throughout the United States each Gifted solo and collaborative pianist has also been featured on the front Christmas season. She guest starred Kelleen Strutz has performed with page of the New York Times and in on the radio show A Prairie Home renowned artists such as Metropolitan O, the Oprah Magazine, Essence, Companion with Garrison Keillor in Opera soprano Angela Brown and Ebony, Classical Singer, Reader’s June 2009. In July 2010, Brown was internationally acclaimed flutists Digest, and Psychology Today. presented in Shanghai at the World William Bennett and James Walker, as Expo as a guest of the USA Pavilion well as noted ensembles including the Highlights this season include a concert and the United States Consulate— Castlewood Singers, the Indianapolis version of Tosca with the Calgary the only opera singer invited to Children’s Choir, and Jordan Jazz of Philharmonic, the Naxos release of perform for the USA Pavilion. Butler University. Equally at home in A Woman’s Life with the Nashville the genres of classical and jazz, Strutz Symphony Orchestra, an extended run Last season held performances of is featured jazz vocalist on her debut of Christmas shows with the Philly Aida with Hamburg State Opera CD, Simply Beautiful, and An Old Pops Encore Series Inc., Gershwin (Germany), Tosca with Pittsburgh Soul with the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz performances with the Latvian National Opera, and Porgy and Bess with the Orchestra, ranked one of the Top 10 Symphony Orchestra, a solo recital Leipzig Radio Orchestra (Germany) Recordings of 2009 by Jazziz magazine. for Stanford Live at Bing Concert and the Moscow (Russia) Symphony Hall, Porgy and Bess in Concert with Orchestra, Christmas concerts Recent engagements include master Butler University, and recitals and with the Carmel Symphony, and classes in Hong Kong and performances Opera…from a Sistah’s Point of View residencies and recitals at Skidmore as soloist for Rhapsody in Blue at the performances around the country. College, Opera Birmingham, the newly opened Palladium of the Carmel Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, the Center for the Performing Arts and in Angela Brown is a trailblazer on a Walker Theatre in Indianapolis, and Barbados by special invitation from mission to bring operatic and classical the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. the United States Embassy. Kelleen vocal performance to a diverse Performances in 2010 included the Strutz received her bachelor’s and audience. Her witty and inspired recital Madison Symphony Orchestra, master’s degrees in piano performance program titled Opera...from a Sistah’s Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, from Butler University, studying Point of View dispels the myths about Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh with Artist-in-Residence Panayis opera through lively commentary on Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Lyras. She is an active piano teacher, opera plots and characters, show- Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, accompanist at Butler University, music stopping arias, poignant art songs, and and Buffalo Philharmonic, as well director at Saint Andrew Presbyterian moving spirituals. A live performance as the Trumpet Awards and the Church, and a founding member of of the program was recorded in Marian Anderson Award Ceremony. the piano trio the Three Beats. October 2010 at the Musical Arts encoreartsprograms.com ('.

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