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A Celebration of American Music 3 with Jim and Maggi Dalton


Faculty Recital: A Celebration of American Music 3 with Jim and Maggi Dalton


Jim and Maggi Dalton with guest musicians from BoCo

Monday, April 23, 2012 - 8:00pm

Seully Hall

Price: FREE


COME CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF OUR NEW RECORDING! "THE SIGH OF THE WEARY: THE CIVIL WAR AT HOME"


Take a sometimes haunting, sometimes amusing, musical journey through America's past with A Celebration of American Music 3, featuring a performance on voice, guitar, mandolin and banjo, as well as a varied palette of styles, carving a broad path through the American past from 18th-century ballads to 20th-century blues.


This year features a special segment commemorating the Civil War. Jim and Maggi Dalton will be joined by guest musicians from The Boston Conservatory’s faculty.



May 2012

Jim's composition performed!

Carson Cooman (b. 1982; Rochester, New York)

Selected Recital Engagements:


May 24, 2012 at 12:15 pm: First Church (Unitarian Universalist), Boston, Massachusetts; Craig A. Penfield: Concerto in C major (1967); Jim Dalton: Canonic Variations and Fugue on "Free At Last" (2005); Ronald Perera: Full Sun (2011); Denis Bédard: Suite du deuxième ton (2009-10)" http://www.carsoncooman.com/concert-organist/engagements.html

LOOK FOR UPCOMING RECORDING!



Recent Performances

January 2012

"'The Many Vibrations You Have Made': Exploring the Pickering Family's Cultural Milieux." The  Pickering House is Salem, Massachusetts' oldest House "and America's oldest Home" (home to the Pickering family for over 350 years).


The program by the Daltons, a musical illustrated performance/lecture, will illuminate the cultural context successive generations of Pickerings would have experienced from the 1600s to the 1900s. In this beautiful home, over the centuries, music sounded and celebrations of all types wove bright threads in the tapestry of time...









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