Carnegie Hall: Justin Austin, Baritone & Howard Watkins, Piano
$49-$59
- Justin Austin, baritone
- Howard Watkins, piano
Maurice Ravel — Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Hugo Wolf — Spanisches Liederbuch
Kurt Weill — Four Walt Whitman Songs
Olaf Bienert — Augen in der Großstadt
Hanns Eisler — Embrace the Fascists
Kurt Weill — "Ballad of the Easy Life" from The Threepenny Opera
Kurt Weill — "Call from the Grave" from The Threepenny Opera
Kurt Weill — "Death Message" from The Threepenny Opera
Ricky Ian Gordon — "Song for a Dark Girl" from Only Heaven
Ricky Ian Gordon — Marvin Gaye Songs
Robert Owens — Mortal Storm for Baritone and Piano, Op. 29
Baritone Justin Austin's star has risen considerably since his 2017 Carnegie Hall debut. In his return to the Hall—featured as part of the Fall of the "Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice" festival—the inimitable Weill and Brecht songbook takes the spotlight. Hear the tale of "Mack the Knife" in selections from the uncategorizable Threepenny Opera, which premiered in Berlin in 1928; one of the rousing Walt Whitman poems Weill set to music after immigrating to the United States; and additional pieces by Ravel, Wolf, Eisler, Ricky Ian Gordon, and more.
About Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall's mission is to present extraordinary music and musicians on the three stages of this legendary hall, to bring the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience, to provide visionary education programs, and to foster the future of music through the cultivation of new works, artists, and audiences.
https://www.carnegiehall.org/About Justin Austin, baritone
Justin Austin debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Marcellus in Brett Dean's Hamlet, and sang the leading role of Charles Blow in Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Terrance Blanchard at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is one of the rising stars of his generation.
https://www.justinaustin.org/