American Classics
About
American Classics is the Boston area’s only performing organization dedicated solely to American music. Since its first season in 1995, the group has presented critically acclaimed concerts of vocal and instrumental music, including rarely revived Broadway musicals. It has given the first concert revivals of Broadway musicals by Irving Berlin and has featured seldom-revived shows by George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
Among its milestones is a centennial production of Berlin’s 1918 soldier show “Yip! Yip! Yaphank!” In 2012 the group saluted Fenway Park’s hundredth season and later sang the National Anthem at the second game of that season. American Classics has also commissioned new works from area composers. Critics have called its concerts “pure delight,” in the words of the Boston Phoenix, and the Boston Globe hailed the performers as “people you want to hear.”
What to Know
- The group presents three programs each season.
- Each program includes a performance at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge.
- It is listed by the Harvard Square Business Association under live music and live theater.
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