Welcome to our 2022-2023 season!
When
Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 6:00 PM EDT - Sold Out, 9:00 PM EDT
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04/12/2023 6:00 pm 04/12/2023 7:00 pm America/New_York Cécile McLorin Salvant, VocalsSullivan Fortner, Piano
in partnership with McCarter Theatre Center and Princeton University Library
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
Where
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
Tickets
General: $40 | Student: $10
Tickets currently remain for the 9pm performance only.
You get a singer like this once in a generation or two.”
—Wynton Marsalis (Trumpeter, Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center)
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About the Event
30 years ago, the late author and Princeton University Professor Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature—the first native-born American to receive that honor since John Steinbeck. Princeton University Concerts joins the Princeton University Library and the McCarter Theatre Center in a campus-wide celebration of this anniversary by commissioning MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist and composer Cecile McLorin Salvant to create a brand-new work inspired by Morrison’s archives, which are housed at the university and will be on display at Firestone Library in a much-anticipated exhibition in the spring. This tribute to the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the author’s legacy will be a rare glimpse into previously unknown aspects of her creative life and practice, as expressed through an equally rare, genre-defying artist— “one of the greatest jazz singers of her generation, although that label sells her short.” (Rolling Stone)
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Musicians
Cécile McLorin Salvant Vocals
Sullivan Fortner Piano
30 years ago, the late author and Princeton University Professor Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature—the first native-born American to receive that honor since John Steinbeck. Princeton University Concerts joins the Princeton University Library and the McCarter Theatre Center in a campus-wide celebration of this anniversary by commissioning MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist and composer Cecile McLorin Salvant to create a brand-new work inspired by Morrison’s archives, which are housed at the university and will be on display at Firestone Library in a much-anticipated exhibition in the spring. This tribute to the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the author’s legacy will be a rare glimpse into previously unknown aspects of her creative life and practice, as expressed through an equally rare, genre-defying artist— “one of the greatest jazz singers of her generation, although that label sells her short.” (Rolling Stone)
Musicians
Cécile McLorin Salvant Vocals
Sullivan Fortner Piano
Program
- AN HOUR-LONG PROGRAM WITH AUDIENCE SEATED ON STAGE
- New Commission Inspired by Toni Morrison Archives