Americana
Fourth Coast Ensemble’s 2017-18 Season Winter concert, Americana, explores our nation’s cultural identity through art song. The program opens with quintessential American folk song settings, followed by contemporary art song focused on American natural landscapes, and a set celebrating the poetry of African-American poets from the past 150 years. An uplifting evening, this concert will reaffirm the power of music to document our past and guide us toward a more perfect union.

Minneapolis-based pianist and Source Song Festival co-founder, Mark Bilyeu, returns to perform with Fourth Coast Ensemble for the second time. 

Repertoire announced below!

January 19, 2018
@ 7:30pm

Parlor Concert in Logan Square
Tickets $35

January 22, 2018
​@ 7:00pm

St. Paul & the Redeemer
​in Hyde Park
Tickets $35
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January 23, 2018
​@ 6:00pm

Ruggles Hall at Newberry Library
Tickets $45-$53

made possible with generous support from Stephen Wood & Kathleen Arthur
Repertoire

Crossing the Grand Sierras, Henry C. Work

Select duets from Songs of the American Countryside, Celius Dougherty

Glory in the Mountains, Songs from the High Sierra, Gwyneth Walker
Landscape: from the Train, My Antonia, Libby Larsen
Prayer to the Land, Beyond the Silence of Sorrow, Roberto Sierra
The Lordly Hudson, Ned Rorem
The Housatonic at Stockbridge, 114 Songs, Charles Ives

Summer Storm, Songs of the Seasons, Margaret Bonds
Sympathy, Five Art Songs, Florence B. Price
We Real Cool, The Book of American Poetry, Stacy Garrop
Silhouette, The Shadow of the Blues, John Musto
Frederick Douglass, America 1968, Tom Cipullo

The Senator's Stump Speech, American Folk Song Settings, Steven Mark Kohn
What Can One Woman Do?, In Eleanor's Words, Stacy Garrop
The Four Freedoms, David Evan Thomas
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