Performances Up Close: Cécile McLorin Salvant, Vocals Sullivan Fortner, Piano

in partnership with McCarter Theatre Center and Princeton University Library
Date
Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 6:00 pm9:00 pm
Audience
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate

Details

Event Description

General: $40 | Student: $10

Program

  • An hour-long program with an audience seated on the stage
  • New commission inspired by Toni Morrison archives

About the Event

30 years ago, the late author and Princeton University Professor Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature—the first native-born American to receive that honor since John Steinbeck. Princeton University Concerts joins the Princeton University Library and the McCarter Theatre Center in a campus-wide celebration of this anniversary by commissioning MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist and composer Cecile McLorin Salvant to create a brand-new work inspired by Morrison’s archives, which are housed at the university and will be on display at Firestone Library in a much-anticipated exhibition in the spring. This tribute to the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the author’s legacy will be a rare glimpse into previously unknown aspects of her creative life and practice, as expressed through an equally rare, genre-defying artist— “one of the greatest jazz singers of her generation, although that label sells her short.” (Rolling Stone)

Musicians

Sponsor
McCarter Theatre Center and Princeton University Library
Event Type
Art and Culture
Event Category
Recommended Event

 

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