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Recital #1: MASS (Miami)
As “one of the most powerful voices of our time,” Davóne Tines is “changing what it means to be a classical singer” (Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker). After a sold-out NWS debut in 2022, Davóne Tines returns to perform Recital No. 1: Mass, his celebrated song cycle that puts Bach in conversation with Margaret Bonds, Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw.
Davóne Tines and The Truth (London)
Davóne Tines and The Truth’s new work ROBESON explodes the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson alongside pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas.
Devised with director Zack Winokur, it premiered to huge acclaim last year in New York. Tynes reimagines Robeson’s signature anthems of protest, resilience, and reassurance. He both confronts the singer’s point zero and holds up a shattered mirror to the American dream, taking listeners on a trip from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the floor of a Moscow hotel room in an attempt to understand an icon through his vulnerability.
Davóne Tines and The Truth (Brussels)
The American bass-baritone Davóne Tines, who wowed last season’s audience at Bozar in the title role of Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian, is back with a remarkable recital accompanied by his band The Truth. Anyone who has attended a Tines recital in the past will know better than to expect a traditional performance. Tines opts for a lavish mixture of opera, lieder, spirituals and protest music to tell a profoundly personal story. In his latest project, Recital No. 2: Robeson, Tines explores his connection with Paul Robeson. This singer and activist, who attempted suicide in a hotel bathroom during his political exile in Moscow, claimed that the CIA had poisoned him with LSD. This shocking event opened the door for Tines to a personal exploration of a man to whom he has compared himself throughout his life.
Davóne Tines
bass-baritone
Khari Lucas
electric bass
John Bitoy
piano
Davóne Tines: Queering the Mass (SF)
Pioneering bass-baritone and creator Davóne Tines queers the catholic mass by transforming it into a non-denominational structure for dealing with human problems. About the program, The New Yorker says “In a matter of minutes, we had traversed multiple centuries and worlds, yet all the music was filtered through the taut resonance of one voice: a timbre at once grand and fraught, potent and vulnerable.” Join Davóne along with his band THE TRUTH (John Bitoy, piano and Khari Lucas, sound artist and electric bass) as they weave classical, gospel, baroque, jazz, and opera into a journey of personal reckoning.
Mabeline: The Greenaissance Tour (Philadelphia)
Are you ready for The Greenaissance? Pop diva Mabeline is back and greener than ever, kicking off her world tour in Philly with an electrifying set blending viral hits including “My Patina” and “Green Light” with holiday classics like you’ve never heard them before. The Grinch's ex-wife is bringing the heat to the coldest time of year with dazzling visuals, dynamic dancers, and surprise guest appearances from Whoville and Philly legends. Whether you love or hate the season, grab your friends, deck yourselves out in green, and get ready to scream for the Real Green Goddess—Mabeline! Let The Greenaissance begin!
El Niño - AMOC @ St. John the Divine
As part of the Cathedral’s traditional holiday programming, the American Modern Opera Company will once again perform El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered with music by John Adams, musical arrangements by Christian Reif, libretto compilation by Peter Sellars, and concept by AMOC* member Julia Bullock, which is an eclectic retelling of the Nativity story celebrating Latin American poets and the voices of women. The reimagined piece will return for a one-night-only engagement.
El Niño - Gälve Symphony Orchestra
After the success in New York, these captivating voices of Gävle - soprano Julia Bullock, mezzo-soprano Rachael Wilson, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and bass-baritone Davóne Tines - will be intertwined in this powerful contemporary oratorio.
El Niño - Munich Radio Orchestra
Making the large-scale "opera oratorio" by the well-known American minimal music composer John Adams from 2000 available for concert performances is the merit of Christian Reif, who comes from Bavaria and regularly conducts in the USA. As an indispensable companion during the creation process and at numerous performances of the arrangement, the American soprano Julia Bullock will also be on the podium for Paradisi gloria.
Music Mondays: Davóne Tines & the PUBLIQuartet (NYC)
Bass-baritone Davóne Tines (“one of the most powerful voices of our time, L A Times) shares a new version of his MASS project together with PUBLIQuartet, the multi-GRAMMY®-nominated improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. MASS explores spirituality and mysticism through varied cultural lenses: following the format of a Christian liturgy, Western European, Afro-American, and 21st-century traditions converge in a single dramatic arc.
Harlem Chamber Players - The Annual Bach Concert
PROGRAM
This concert will feature all music by J.S. Bach:
Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060R
Concerto for Oboe d’amore in A Major, BWV 1055
"Komm, süsses Kreuz, so will ich sagen" from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
"Betrachte, meine Seel" from St. John Passion, BWV 245
"Quia fecit mihi magna" from Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243
“Mache dich, mein Herze rein” from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Sinfonia from Ich hatte viel Bekummernis, BWV 21
Sinfonia from Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
Sinfonia from Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196
Ricercar a 6 from Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079
Ming Mei Residency: Everything Rises @ Harvard
Join us for an evening with Davóne Tines and Jennifer Koh, as they discuss their collaborative work Everything Rises. The work is a collective exploration of family history—telling the stories of Koh’s mother, Gertrude Soonja Lee Koh, a refugee from North Korea during the Korean War, and Tines’s grandmother, Alma Lee Gibbs Tines, who holds vivid memories of anti-Black discrimination and violence dating back many years. These experiences—of the artists and their families—are both the inspiration for and subject matter of this project. Developed over multiple years by an all-BIPOC creative team including composer Ken Ueno and director Alexander Gedeon, the project powerfully reclaims Koh and Tines’ narratives about who they are and how they got to where they are now.
CODED at Connecticut college
Harry Burleigh | Set of songs arr. Alex Fortes
Robert MacGimsey | Sweet Little Jesus Boy arr. Alex Fortes
Antonín Dvořák | String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 “American”, arr. Sarah Darling
Tyshawn Sorey | Songs of Death for Bass Baritone and Strings (world premiere)
Frederick Tillis | Spiritual Fantasy No. 12, II. Wade in the Water arr. Francesca McNeeley
Curated by Crier Megumi Stohs Lewis and Davóne Tines
A Far Cry and “the must-hear” bass-baritone Davóne Tines collaborate around the legacy of Black spirituals and their ongoing survival by way of code-switching. We’ll explore the work of Harry T. Burleigh, whose groundbreaking arrangements of spirituals, and influential relationship with Antonín Dvořák, helped shape our country’s musical identity and cement the spiritual as one of America’s most significant and inherently complicated forms of music. Featuring a new work from 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey, along with Frederick Tillis’ seminal Wade in the Water from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12, CODED uncovers the intended messages of the people who birthed these songs, revealing their hidden metaphors, and how those hidden meanings continue to compound and evolve.
CODEd - A Far Cry Orchestra
Harry Burleigh | Set of songs arr. Alex Fortes
Robert MacGimsey | Sweet Little Jesus Boy arr. Alex Fortes
Antonín Dvořák | String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 “American”, arr. Sarah Darling
Tyshawn Sorey | Songs of Death for Bass Baritone and Strings (world premiere)
Frederick Tillis | Spiritual Fantasy No. 12, II. Wade in the Water arr. Francesca McNeeley
Curated by Crier Megumi Stohs Lewis and Davóne Tines
A Far Cry and “the must-hear” bass-baritone Davóne Tines collaborate around the legacy of Black spirituals and their ongoing survival by way of code-switching. We’ll explore the work of Harry T. Burleigh, whose groundbreaking arrangements of spirituals, and influential relationship with Antonín Dvořák, helped shape our country’s musical identity and cement the spiritual as one of America’s most significant and inherently complicated forms of music. Featuring a new work from 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey, along with Frederick Tillis’ seminal Wade in the Water from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12, CODED uncovers the intended messages of the people who birthed these songs, revealing their hidden metaphors, and how those hidden meanings continue to compound and evolve.
Davóne Tines + THE TRUTH ft. D-Composed: ROBESON
D-Composed Ensemble Members
Caitlin Edwards, violin
Khelsey Zarraga, violin
Wilfred Farquharson, viola
Tahirah Whittington, cello
In ROBESOИ, Davóne Tines reimagines Paul Robeson’s musical repertoire as the soundtrack to a fever dream in a Moscow hotel room. In order to take on this expansive psychological and aesthetic space, Tines created a band called The Truth alongside bassist and sound artist Khari Lucas and pianist John Bitoy. The score is comprised exclusively of songs Robeson sang — across gospel, classical, Broadway, and folk music — but in new arrangements and interpretations that shape-shift and time-travel through styles and genres to fully explore the material’s connection to Tines’ own work and our time. The piece is conceived and staged by Zack Winokur and will be released as an album by Nonesuch Records.
Tines is joined by D-Composed, a Chicago-based creative incubator which acts as a bridge between the past and present to the future of representation, music-centered experiences, and the communal power of Black composers and their impact. Merging the worlds of contemporary music and classical, the ensemble also has collaborated with Jamila Woods during her appearance on The Late Show with Stepen Colbert and with hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper.
Davóne tines + the truth: ROBESON - LA premiere
DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH present the album ROBESOИ. In Tines’ solo recording debut, the musician grapples with the legacy of a hero. Exploding the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson, Tines and his band THE TRUTH — pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas — take listeners on a trip from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the floor of a Moscow hotel room in an attempt to understand an icon not through aspiring to his monumentality, but through connecting to his vulnerability.
The album’s sprawling and kaleidoscopic musical landscape brings together elements of classical, funk, Fauré, gospel, John Adams, r&b Shakespeare, and Bach. Tines says of ROBESOИ, which he co-created with director Zack Winokur, “This album is my most personal artistic statement to date. I’ve endeavored to compare and contrast my journey as an artist with that of my artistic ancestor and hero, Paul Robeson, the unparalleled singer, actor, and activist. Standing on his beliefs of egality for the disenfranchised led to governmental and public attacks that almost ended his life. This album is the fever dream of the universal journey to battle internal and external persecution in order to find one’s self and decide what you need to say the most now that you’ve survived.”
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 Tanglewood
August 24th Open rehearsal ticket link
August 25th Ticket link
The Ninth Symphony, forming and dissolving before our ears in its beauty and terror and simplicity and complexity, is itself Beethoven’s embrace for the millions, from East to West, high to low, naive to sophisticated.
PS21 House Blend IV
A double bill: Bonnie Whiting performs Wang Lu‘s Stages for solo speaking/singing percussionist, with stage design by Polly Apfelbaum, and Frederic Rzewski‘s To the Earth for speaking percussionist and four flower pots. Plus bass-baritone Davóne Tines singing Eastman Evensong