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American Opera Projects Presents Alvin Singleton's Brooklyn Bones at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall

Apr. 02, 2010

American Opera Projects presents Alvin Singleton’s Brooklyn Bones at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall on Monday, April 26th. Commissioned in 2008 by the Fort Greene Park Conservancy for the 100th anniversary and re-dedication of the Brooklyn park's landmark Prison Ship Martyrs Monument and using an original text by Patricia Hampl, Alvin Singleton's Brooklyn Bones is a eulogy for the 11,000 men and boys who died in horrid conditions on British prison ships harbored in New York City's East River during the Revolutionary War. Mark Shapiro leads the ensemble featuring the choral group Cantori New York and tenor Cameron Smith.

For more information on the music of Alvin Singleton, please visit www.schott-music.com and www.alvinsingleton.com.

Learn more on this concert and purchase tickets by visiting www.operaprojects.org.

Alvin Singleton
Brooklyn Bones (2008)
for tenor, SATB chorus and orchestra
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18'

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