Sarah Rothenberg Artistic Director

Cécile McLorin Salvant: Book of Ayres

The Claudia and David Hatcher Series
Cécile McLorin Salvant: Book of Ayres
  • Saturday | March 27 | 7:30 PM
  • Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
  • 800 Bagby Houston TX 77002
  • 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com
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Musicians

CÉCILE MCCLORIN SALVANT, voice; SULLIVAN FORTNER, piano/harpsichord/keyboards; EMI FERGUSON, flute; DUŠAN BALARIN, theorbo/lute; YASUSHI NAKAMURA, bass/violone; KEITA OGAWA, percussion

Music of John Dowland, Henry Purcell, Michel Lambert and more
The always-adventurous superstar vocalist returns with her newest highly collaborative program, reimagining early music and breathing new life into songs by composers including Henry Purcell and John Dowland. Cécile McLorin Salvant brings together a versatile all-star ensemble of standout improvisers from the worlds of early music and jazz, including acclaimed Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning Baroque flutist Emi Ferguson and Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner.
Blending Baroque intimacy with improvisational freedom, the performers reveal how centuries old ayres resonate with the emotional depth of blues and jazz. The result is a spellbinding concert where history, storytelling and modern expression meet.

“In an instant, Purcell’s London was speaking directly to Harlem…This was not interpretation; it was inhabitation.”

— Stage and Cinema

“a performance that defied expectations, crossed cultures and offered new ways to look at both early music and jazz”

— CutCommon

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