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Show-Me Change: A Concert for Obama
Date: Wednesday, Oct 29
Time: 7:30 PM
LOCATION
Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts
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DETAILS
Show-Me Change features performances by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt, chart-topping classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, plus Missouri-native cellist Clarice Jensen and baritone Casey Molino Dunn. Each is an enthusiastic supporter of Senator Barack Obama for the presidency, and they hope to share their commitment and inspiration with Swing State voters in Missouri through their music. All proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Obama-Biden campaign. Audience members to be invited on stage to speak about their choice in this election.
Tift Merritt (pictured at left) will perform selections from her latest album, “Another Country,” which she wrote in a flat in Paris that she rented in order to take time off from her grueling tour schedule. She recalls, “I cannot explain what happened except to say that there were never enough hours in the day to write, and there was always kindness at hand. I took pictures. I wrote stories. I played piano. I wrote songs.” Newsweek has praised her “Sweet and delicate songs, with a substance that makes them prettier still…” and Time Out New York described her as “the best singer-songwriter you haven’t heard of yet.”
Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein (pictured at right) will perform selections from Bach’s Goldberg Variations as well as Brahms’ Intermezzo Op. 118, No. 2. Dinnerstein has been called “elegant and assured” by The New Yorker, while Slate proclaimed, “Go hear her, and get religion. And if you can’t, there’s always the record.” Her first solo album, a recording of the Goldberg Variations, took the classical world by storm and was described by O, the Oprah Magazine as “a timeless, meditative, utterly audacious solo debut.” Both that CD and her just-released second album – “The Berlin Concert” – have topped the Billboard Classical Chart.
Cellist Clarice Jensen, who began playing at age three in her hometown of Independence, Missouri and now lives in New York, will perform Bach’s Suite No. 5 in C minor, as well as an excerpt from Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, written while the composer was interned in a German prison camp during WWII. Baritone Casey Molino Dunn, described as the "quintessential multi-faceted musician" by Classical Singer, will perform Gene Scheer's American Anthem, a song that speaks of our country's strong legacy of progress brought about by the actions of everyday Americans.
**The Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts is non-partisan and is not affiliated with any political party.