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28th Annual Trustee Benefit Concert

In support of the Student Scholarship Fund
Featuring baritone Thomas Hampson

Sunday, March 9, 2008
3:00 p.m.
Lund Auditorium
Tickets $75 and $55
$350 including a post-recital gala reception

Thomas Hampson’s virile, versatile baritone has earned critical raves, recording awards (like a 2002 Grammy) and rapturous audience response since he won first place in the Metropolian Opera Auditions of 1981. He’s known for rich and mellow low tones balanced by ringing top notes, and his repertoire extends from the operas of Britten, Mozart and Wagner to the musicals of Bernstein, Kern and Porter, from the lieder of Mahler and Schubert to the American songs of Copland, Foster and Rorem. People magazine named him one of the 50 most beautiful people in 1993, yet he possesses such a fervent intellect that he writes most of his own program notes and maintains his own website. His recitals, predictably, are both elegant and engaging—testament to his belief that narrative is the common thread of song and that singing is the most integral and uplifting of human arts.

“Mr. Hampson conveys the idea of an oral tradition that it is his mission to pass on, with the closed-eyed intensity of a blind poet when he is singing.”
— New York Times

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