Upcoming Events at The Dunsmore Jazz Room
Description
In the Dunsmore Jazz Room with enchanting lakeside views and high-performance dedicated HVAC in your city longfellow
Event Details
Dinner and drinks service starts 1 hour before showtimes.
Singer Maud Hixson and pianist Rick Carlson perform the classic anthems and other beloved compositions of one of America’s greatest songwriters. Irving Berlin was revered by other songwriters as well as the rest of the world, and this Russian immigrant’s love of his adopted homeland is reflected in songs like “God Bless America” and “White Christmas”, his simple, elegant genius sparked by his early days as a singing waiter on the Lower East Side of New York.
Hailed as “gently virtuosic” (All About Jazz), singer Maud Hixson is a devoted exponent of great songs, ranging from the classic Great American Songbook to the often unsung or forgotten compositions awaiting rediscovery.
Maud is the recipient of four Artist Initiative grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Maud received a Next Step Grant from the McKnight Foundation in 2015 and her most recent Artist Initiative Grant funded a big band project in 2017. In 2016 she made her second appearance at Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center in a tribute to singer Sylvia Syms, hosted by Rex Reed and presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation. After her Chicago debut in 2017, the Chicago Tribune’s Howard Reich proclaimed, “Hixson stood out as the biggest revelation at the Chicago Cabaret Convention”. This year, she embarks on a new recording project devoted to the songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett.
“Her vocal style is so warm, compelling and intimate—it’s clear she cares about the words and telling the story, with clarity and without artifice—almost a lost art these days.” --Michael Feinstein
Singer Maud Hixson and pianist Rick Carlson perform the classic anthems and other beloved compositions of one of America’s greatest songwriters. Irving Berlin was revered by other songwriters as well as the rest of the world, and this Russian immigrant’s love of his adopted homeland is reflected in songs like “God Bless America” and “White Christmas”, his simple, elegant genius sparked by his early days as a singing waiter on the Lower East Side of New York.
Hailed as “gently virtuosic” (All About Jazz), singer Maud Hixson is a devoted exponent of great songs, ranging from the classic Great American Songbook to the often unsung or forgotten compositions awaiting rediscovery.
Maud is the recipient of four Artist Initiative grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Maud received a Next Step Grant from the McKnight Foundation in 2015 and her most recent Artist Initiative Grant funded a big band project in 2017. In 2016 she made her second appearance at Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center in a tribute to singer Sylvia Syms, hosted by Rex Reed and presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation. After her Chicago debut in 2017, the Chicago Tribune’s Howard Reich proclaimed, “Hixson stood out as the biggest revelation at the Chicago Cabaret Convention”. This year, she embarks on a new recording project devoted to the songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett.
“Her vocal style is so warm, compelling and intimate—it’s clear she cares about the words and telling the story, with clarity and without artifice—almost a lost art these days.” --Michael Feinstein
