Singer

A program of voice & piano songs by Karim Al-Zand (including the premiere of three new song cycles) featuring distinguished Shepherd School alumni guest artists and student performers. 

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The Sky with all its Stars

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

From the rich legacy of psalm settings, our season finale juxtaposes music from the Jewish and Christian traditions. In convertendo (Psalm 126) from the operatic master Jean-Philippe Rameau infuses the psalmist’s words with flair and passion, while companion pieces by Salamone Rossi and J. S. Bach infuse psalm texts with sonorous counterpoint.

Songs of Zion

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

At the broken heart of the story is the wrongly exiled barber, Sweeney Todd, as he returns to London to seek revenge on the lecherous Judge Turpin who ruined his life and destroyed his family. When Todd reunites with the ever-resourceful and ever-unscrupulous Mrs. Lovett, the owner of a local pie shop, his razor-sharp need for vengeance soon supplies Mrs. Lovett with as much meat as she needs for her new and highly popular range of delicious meat pies. But Sweeney’s desperate hunger for revenge cannot be satiated by a meat pie, however tasty.

Mark Diamond

Baritone

Events

Jan 16, 2024

The Sky with all its Stars · The Shepherd School of Music

May 13, 2023

Songs of Zion · Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Jan 28 - Feb 5, 2023

Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street · Austin Opera

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