Contralto and pianist pay musical tribute to Anne Frank
Sept. 25
‘We Remember: A Tribute to the Inner Life of Anne Frank’
Pittsburgh contralto Daphne Alderson and Philadelphia pianist Norma Meyer will perform the season premiere of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall’s Listen Locally series. This is Listen Locally’s fifth season at the music hall.
“We Remember: A Concert to Celebrate the Inner Life of Anne Frank” takes place at 2 p.m. Sept. 25, featuring an eclectic musical selection written or arranged for contralto and piano.
The concert pairs Alderson and Meyer in their musical tribute to the young girl whose indomitable spirit survived and soared beyond her death in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.
Deeply informed by Anne Frank’s remarkable and beloved diary, as well as the eternal reverberations of the Holocaust, the performance incorporates compositions by Gustav Mahler, Leo Smit, Michael Cohen, Harry Burleigh and Pittsburgh composer Douglas Levine’s musical setting of Maya Angelou’s poem “Alone.”
A dessert reception with the performers follows the concert. Complimentary shuttle service will be available from the Carnegie municipal lot on Main Street, between Mary and Pine streets.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door and $5 for students.
To purchase tickets, visit www.carnegiecarnegie.org or call 412-276-3456.