American Soprano Denise Young to Appear in Recital at Subculture

The gifted American soprano Denise Young will appear in recital, Wednesday evening, May 1, 2019, 7:30 pm at SubCulture (45 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012). She will perform works from her 2018 album, Denise Young, Soprano, with pianist Daric V. Jackson, bassist Noah Garabedian, drummer Leon Joyce Jr., and vocalists John James and Lajuan Carter-Dent. The program will include Songs of Form, co-composed by Ms. Young and pianist Thomas Nickell, featuring words of Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Baldwin, which just received its world premiere at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in April 2019.

The complete program follows:

Joni Mitchell | Both Sides Now
Duke Ellington, Giuseppe Verdi | Come Sunday / O Patria Mia
Sting | You Will Be My Ain True Love
Sergei Rachmaninoff | 14 Romances, Op. 24 No. 14 “Vocalise”
Denise Young, John Lennon | Sparrow / Blackbird
Denise Young | Nature of Your Pain
American Spiritual | Round About the Mountain
Antônio Carlos Jobim | Waters of March
George Gershwin arr. Denise Young | I Loves You Porgy / Bess’s Lament
Denise Young, Thomas Nickell | Songs of Form

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