Letters from New York: the Music of Chris DeBlasio NEW DATE

September 10 2022 7:30 PM (EDT)
Sep 10 7:30 PM

Chelmsford Center for the Arts
Chelmsford Center for the Arts
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Open seating, some at tables of 4, all patrons must provide proof of vaccination/booster and wear mask

Event Description
Cultural Wasteland presents
Letters from New York:
The Music of Chris DeBlasio
with Heather Gallagher and Paul Soper, soloists
and James Myers, pianist
Written by Heather Gallagher
with Peter Schiepers, dramaturg
From the memories of
Virginia Lowery,
Harry Huff,
William Berger
And the dissertation, “An Introduction to the life and the songs of composer Chris DeBlasio with special emphasis on his cycle,
All the Way Through Evening,
by Dr. Brian Bonin.
With the poetry of
Ilsa Gilbert
Perry Brass
and
Elizabeth Bishop
Chris DeBlasio was one of the rising talents of his generation before his life was cut short by his death from AIDS in 1993 at the age of 34 years old. This concert is a retrospective of Chris' life and work and includes stories about his life, times and the New York of the 1980s. Featuring the cycles, Villagers and In Endless Ascen