Upcoming Events at Gaillard Center
Sun Jan 13, 5:00 PM - Sun Jan 13, 8:00 PM
95 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29401
Community: French Quarter
Description
Honoring music spanning the 18th and most of the 19th centuries this powerful concert inspired by African-American Spirituals will be sung by mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, with piano
Event Details
PRINTS IN CLAY EVENING CONCERT
STILL, WE RISE!: A SPIRITUALS CELEBRATION
FEATURING RENOWNED MEZZO – SOPRANO J’NAI BRIDGES AND THE LOWCOUNTRY VOICES, LED BY DIRECTOR NATHAN L. NELSON, WITH MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS BY COMPOSER AND MUSICAL DIRECTOR WYCLIFFE GORDON
, an instrumental septet and highly acclaimed The Lowcountry Voices featuring arrangements by Musical Director Wycliffe Gordon.
American mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, known for her “rich, dark, exciting sound” (Opera News) is quickly becoming one of opera’s fastest-rising talents. Her 2018-19 season includes her Carnegie Hall Recital debut, a return to the San Francisco Opera for her house role debut as Carmen, her role debut of Kasturbai in Satyagraha at LA Opera, as well as international debuts at Dutch National Opera and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Renowned musician, composer, conductor and arranger Wycliffe Gordon is a veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and original member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Gordon’s arrangement of the theme song to NPR’s “All Things Considered” is heard daily across the globe. The world famous Apollo Theater celebrated 75 years by commissioning Gordon as the musical director and composer of a new work that premiered May 2011.
Lowcountry Voices performs all genres of music with an emphasis on African-Ame
STILL, WE RISE!: A SPIRITUALS CELEBRATION
FEATURING RENOWNED MEZZO – SOPRANO J’NAI BRIDGES AND THE LOWCOUNTRY VOICES, LED BY DIRECTOR NATHAN L. NELSON, WITH MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS BY COMPOSER AND MUSICAL DIRECTOR WYCLIFFE GORDON
, an instrumental septet and highly acclaimed The Lowcountry Voices featuring arrangements by Musical Director Wycliffe Gordon.
American mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, known for her “rich, dark, exciting sound” (Opera News) is quickly becoming one of opera’s fastest-rising talents. Her 2018-19 season includes her Carnegie Hall Recital debut, a return to the San Francisco Opera for her house role debut as Carmen, her role debut of Kasturbai in Satyagraha at LA Opera, as well as international debuts at Dutch National Opera and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Renowned musician, composer, conductor and arranger Wycliffe Gordon is a veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and original member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Gordon’s arrangement of the theme song to NPR’s “All Things Considered” is heard daily across the globe. The world famous Apollo Theater celebrated 75 years by commissioning Gordon as the musical director and composer of a new work that premiered May 2011.
Lowcountry Voices performs all genres of music with an emphasis on African-Ame
