SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
2:00 PM
Epiphany Center for the Arts
Epiphany Hall


​EPIPHANY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
EPIPHANY HALL
201 S ASHLAND AVE
CHICAGO, IL 60607
The closing concert will examine Chicago  poet, journalist, and urban folk singer Carl Sandburg’s seminal anthology of American Folk songs, The American Songbag. Published in 1927, while Sandburg was living in Chicago, the anthology was an instantly popular collection of folk songs that proved to be foundational for the American folk resurgence, inspiring singers like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. A powerful statement of a diverse vision of American identity, Sandburg described the collection as a "ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth ... rich with the diversity of the United States."

The concert will feature arrangements of many of the songs contained in Sandburg's collection alongside various art song settings of his poetry.
Concert III photo: ​Carl Sandburg
PROGRAM
Eric Malmquist: Selections from On the Way
Ernst Bacon:  Omaha
arr. Alan Smith:  The Wide Mizzoura (Shenendoah)
arr. Ernst Bacon: The Erie Canal
arr. Steven Mark Kohn: Red Iron Ore
Eric Malmquist: Selections from Chicago Songs
arr. Steven Mark Kohn: Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Howard Swanson: Cahoots
arr. George Walker: Mary Wore Three Links of Chain
arr. George Walker: I Got A Letter from Jesus
arr. Margaret Bonds: Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
arr. Ernst Bacon: Sucking Cider
arr. Ernst Bacon: Common Bill
arr. Ernst Bacon: Careless Love
Ernst Bacon: Fond Affection
arr. Ruth Crawford Seeger: Ten Thousand Miles Away from Home
arr. Alan Smith: He's gone away
arr. Steven Mark Kohn: Ten Thousand Miles Away

ARTISTS

LUNGA ERIC HALLAM, tenor
PAULINE TAN, mezzo-soprano
NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor & artistic director
​YASUKO OURA, piano
ANTHONY REED, bass
all performance and master class photography by Ryan Bennett, Mike Grittani, and Elliot Mandel