Sparks & Wiry Cries - SongSLAM
Sparks & Wiry Cries holds its songSLAM Festival from January 10th to 13th 2023, in New York with events at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, DiMenna Center for the Arts, and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The festival will present the world premiere of Shawn Okpebholo’s new 55-minute song cycle “Songs in Flight.” The event will take place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium as part of the MetLiveArts series. Conceived and commissioned by Sparks & Wiry Cries, the new song cycle features singer and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens, soprano Karen Slack, countertenor Reginald Mobley, baritone Will Liverman, and pianist Howard Watkins.
Performance Date: Jan. 12, 2023
Performers
Soprano Karen Slack
Countertenor Reginald Mobley
Baritone Will Liverman
Pianist Howard Watkins
January 12th | Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, New York