American Classics kicks off its 28th Season, celebrating the SUN (November 8 & 10, 2024), the MOON (February 14 & 16), and the STARS (April 11 & 13, 2025) season with “Here Comes the Sun.” “Sunny” Songs to be performed range from the era of parlor songs with “Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie," through Irving Berlin and Rodgers & Hammerstein, to Steve Martin with “Sun is Gonna Shine" from “Bright Star" and the Pink hit “Cover Me in Sunshine."
The cast blends performers familiar to American Classics audiences and some new faces. They include Grace Allendorf, Bradford Conner, Caryn May, Todd McNeel, Jr., Cynthia Mork, Julia Nelson, Dan Perry, and Benjamin Sears, with Catherine Stornetta on piano.
11 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
75 Great Road
Bedford, MA 01730
Tickets are $30-$25 and available on amclass.org
American Classics was founded in 1996 by The Camptown Ladies (Mary Ann Lanier & Sylvie Stewart), Benjamin Sears & Bradford Conner and Margaret Ulmer as a summer concert series at the Swedenborg Chapel in Cambridge. Concerts for American Music Week in November and a Christmas concert soon were added to the schedule. In 1999 American Classics moved to the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. At Longy the group began a regular Fall/Winter seasons of three programs, eventually adding second performances in the suburbs, currently in Bedford.
American Classics has been a leading presenter of classic musicals in concert format. Irving Berlin's first two Broadway scores, Watch Your Step (not seen in Boston since 1915) and Stop! Look! Listen!, along with an overview of his four Music Box Revues were among the group's early productions. The first revival of Berlin's World War I shows, Yip! Yip! Yaphank! was given in 2010, with a second production in 2019 for the show's one hundredth anniversary.
The cast blends performers familiar to American Classics audiences and some new faces. They include Grace Allendorf, Bradford Conner, Caryn May, Todd McNeel, Jr., Cynthia Mork, Julia Nelson, Dan Perry, and Benjamin Sears, with Catherine Stornetta on piano.
Performances
Friday, November 8, 2024, at 7:30 pm
First Church Congregational11 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 3:00 pm
First Parish75 Great Road
Bedford, MA 01730
Tickets are $30-$25 and available on amclass.org
About American Classics
American Classics is the Boston area's only organization devoted solely to the performance of American music, giving voice to forgotten gems and newly discovered musical treasures in concerts of vocal and instrumental music.American Classics was founded in 1996 by The Camptown Ladies (Mary Ann Lanier & Sylvie Stewart), Benjamin Sears & Bradford Conner and Margaret Ulmer as a summer concert series at the Swedenborg Chapel in Cambridge. Concerts for American Music Week in November and a Christmas concert soon were added to the schedule. In 1999 American Classics moved to the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. At Longy the group began a regular Fall/Winter seasons of three programs, eventually adding second performances in the suburbs, currently in Bedford.
American Classics has been a leading presenter of classic musicals in concert format. Irving Berlin's first two Broadway scores, Watch Your Step (not seen in Boston since 1915) and Stop! Look! Listen!, along with an overview of his four Music Box Revues were among the group's early productions. The first revival of Berlin's World War I shows, Yip! Yip! Yaphank! was given in 2010, with a second production in 2019 for the show's one hundredth anniversary.
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