In partnership with Tucson Desert Song Festival

With credentials too numerous to list, Cano’s performances range from the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra to the Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera and more than 100 performances on stage with the Metropolitan Opera. Her program includes the world premiere of a new song cycle by American Gergory Spears, commissioned by the Tucson Desert Song Festival.

Composers, performers, and poets alike have all had their day in court. Johannes Brahms was a witness against his good friend in a divorce hearing. Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann sued her father for the chance to be married against his wishes. Franz Schubert and Ethel Smyth were arrested for revolutionary opinions and political activism. The centerpiece of the program is Brahms’s Op. 91: two songs written before and after an acrimonious court battle in which Brahms was a witness. Hear these stories and more—and the music they inspired—in this program for voice, viola and piano.

Two of True Concord’s favorite soloists come together with pianist and True Concord tenor Mark Murphy Vogel for a journey exploring the eclectic evolution of American song. From folk music, to art song, to treasures of Broadway and The Great American Songbook, this program looks through a musical lens at the land we call home.

In partnership with Tucson Desert Song Festival

Join GRAMMY-winning soprano Ana María Martínez and leading Broadway Music Director and pianist Andy Einhorn in an intimate evening of storytelling and song as they explore Ana María’s rich and winding journey to becoming the artist and woman that she is today. From a childhood steeped in Cuban and Puerto Rican tradition, to her musical education at Juilliard, and then on to the greatest international opera and concert stages of the world—hear the stories, be part of the discovery and listen to the songs that inspired Ana María’s personal story as she unveils all of the layers of who she was, who she is and who she is still becoming.