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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK SELECTIONS
SEPTEMBER 22 – 24, 2023
SOPRANO
Music Director Fabio Luisi makes his first appearance on the Pops Series presented by Capital One. The evening opens with classic Gershwin, followed by selections from the Great American Songbook. These important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards began in the early 20th century and continue to be written to this day.
DALLAS SYMPHONY
Dallas, TX
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
SOPRANO
CHAMBER MUSIC
DETRIOT
SONGS OF LOVE & JUSTICE
OCTOBER 15, 2023
For her performance at Chamber Music Detroit, Slack performs Of Thee I Sing! Songs of Love and Justice, her incredibly moving program conceived during the turmoil in the summer of 2020, when the country was forced into a long-overdue racial awakening.
Rochester, MI
Varner Recital Hall
SOPRANO
WITH HARLEM QUARTET
New York, NY
Advent Lutheran Church
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC
JANUARY 17, 2024
Star soprano Karen Slack returns to FCM’s member Series, this time in concert with the Pacifica Quartet. The varied program features songs by George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, a new commission by James Lee III, and Dvorak’s Quartet in A-flat Major.
PACIFICA QUARTET
SOPRANO
Gates Hall, Newman Center
Denver, CO
OPERA
PHILADELPHIA
MARCH 17, 2024
The 90-minute concert is conducted by Opera Philadelphia’s Elizabeth Braden and Theodore Thomas, Jr., Director of the Wharton-Wesley Faith Ensemble and Minister of Music at Tindley Temple, and includes compositions by Roland Carter, Christopher H. Harris, Undine Smith Moore, Rosephanye Powell, Florence Price, Michael Reid, André J. Thomas, and Nolan J. Williams, Jr.
TO SIT AND DREAM
Tindley Temple United Methodist Church
Philadelphia, PA
SOPRANO
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
MAY 8-10, 2024
Baroque and Classical expert Jane Glover conducts this program spotlighting Mozart. Bookended by his Symphonies Nos. 35 and 39 — both full of gorgeous melodies from beginning to end — the concert features his buoyant Oboe Concerto performed by NY Phil Principal Oboe Liang Wang. Ah, perfido!, by Beethoven, one of Mozart’s most eminent heirs, is a dramatic showpiece for soprano, sung by Karen Slack.
MOZART AND BEETHOVEN WITH JANE GLOVER
New York, NY
David Geffen Hall
SOPRANO
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