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| Performance Schedule - 2009 |
For more details of the events and to purchase tickets, please click on the date links. The schedule is subject to change. For the most current details of the event, please contact the local venue. |
- April 5, 2009 at 2pm (Carnegie Hall, New York, NY): Kathleen Battle performs a program celebrating Great American Spirituals. Joining her will be accomplished pianists Cyrus Chestnut and Joseph Joubert along with harpist, Nancy Allen.
Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to hear Kathleen Battle sing a concert of "The Music of Struggle, Faith, and Deliverance."
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- May 9, 2009 at 8pm (
Marin Veterans' Memorial Auditorium at Marin Center,
San Rafael, CA): Kathleen Battle performs in recital.
- May 16, 2009 at 8pm (Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, CA): Offering a program of favorite Bel Canto arias and American Spirituals, Kathleen Battle performs with the San Diego Symphony, with Jahja Ling conducting in a Jacobs' Masterworks Special Event. Attend a special pre-concert event and more.
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- October 29, 2009 and October 31, 2009 at 7:30pm (Seoul Arts Center Opera Theater,
Seoul, Korea): Kathleen Battle will perform opera arias, spirituals, and jazz.
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- December 1, 2009 at 7:30pm (Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Tulsa, OK): The Tulsa Performing Arts Center presents Kathleen Battle in a gala holiday recital. Joining her is the gifted jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut. For an extra-special treat, attend the post-performance reception.
- December 7, 2009 at 8pm (Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, Charleston, SC): The Charleston Concert Association presents "Christmas with Kathleen Battle." She partners again with the gifted jazz Pianist Cyrus Chestnut.
- December 18, 2009 at 7:30pm (Harris Theater, Chicago, IL): The Harris Theater presents Kathleen Battle in an unique holiday program of seasonal Spirituals and traditional favorites. Joining her is the award-winning Chicago Children's Choir.
Coming in 2010! |
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- May 27, 2010 (Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD) & May 29, 2010 (Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD) at 8pm: The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents Kathleen Battle (in her BSO debut) and the Grammy-nominated Morgan State University Choir in a special program honoring and featuring Spirituals and hymns inspired by the Underground Railroad.
As a reviewer noted in October 2006, "[with] Kathleen Battle... [Spirituals] are 'born again.' Soulful, impassioned, unhurried, with every nuance explored they become deeply, stunningly beautiful."
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"Battle's singing [was] stunning…Opening with the only two classical offerings of the evening, Battle sang [the pieces] with stunning clarity and precision…Launching into spirituals and gospel songs, [she hit] high notes that shimmered throughout the hall."
—Carol Furtwangler, Post and Courier (December 2009)
“The magic of Battle's high range has never been entirely about the the altitude of the notes...but about the ease, finesse and grace with which she handles them. [Her] ability to shape a phrase is unparalleled; she puts lyrics and their meaning at center stage... [transcending] the language of the lyrics..." (Full Review)
—Elaine Schmidt, Journal Sentinal (March 2008)
“As deeply moving as [spirituals] inherently are, [with] Kathleen Battle... they are 'born again.' Soulful, impassioned, unhurried, with every nuance explored they become deeply, stunningly beautiful — a metaphorical trip to heaven, in fact...So well were these received that this gracious and generous artist returned again and again to perform more of the same..."
—The Royal Gazette (Bermudian Newspaper), (October 2006)
“Her voice has rarely sounded better, whether she is singing Strauss, spirituals, or Stevie Wonder. Her unwavering musicianship, combined with her natural vocal beauty, were thrilling… exhilarating.”
—Michael Huebner, The Birmingham News (April 2006)
“She sang André Previn's song cycle Honey & Rue...with evocative text by [Nobel Prize winning author] Toni Morrison written expressly for [her]...She is singing as well as ever, maybe better...The notes still seem to hover in the air as if propped up by clouds, glistening like sunlight.”
—Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press (March 2006)
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