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Bobbie Lancaster, Claude Cymerman combine forces for Wednesday concert
Greencastle singer/songwriter Bobbie Lancaster joins forces with the eminent classical DePauw University pianist Claude Cymerman Wednesday night, July 5 for a continued Independence Day celebration of America, featuring traditional folk songs, Antonin Dvorak’s beloved “Going Home” and music by the great Black American composer Florence Price.
The program is the sixth in this summer’s weekly free 7:30 p.m. Greencastle Summer Music Festival concerts, held in Gobin Church on Wednesdays, and financially supported by individual donors, an endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation, and businesses including the Doc’s Inn and the host for the GSMF’s out-of-town performers, the Inn at DePauw.
“I was moved nearly to tears listening to Bobbie and Claude rehearsing ‘Amazing Grace’ recently,” Eric Edberg, the DePauw emeritus music professor who founded the GSMF in 2005, said. “Hearing these two extraordinarily creative professional musicians, both based here in Greencastle, combining their skills for their first cross-genre collaboration was a thrill. And their individual portions of the concert are going to be a treat.”
Cymerman will be performing solo piano music by the prodigious composer Price, the first Black woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra, and whose beautiful, romantic-style works have recently been rediscovered and are growing in popularity. Edberg will join him for two other Price pieces, arranged by Cymerman.
Lancaster will do a number of songs in her own set, joined for part of the program by local musicians Bill Hamm and Rick Provine.
The GSMF will continue on Wednesday, July 12 with versatile flutist Leo Sussman, new to the DePauw music faculty, making his GSMF debut, and the Brazilian choro music trio Toco Rio.