Lawrence Brownlee to tour the US in March and April, including an April 24 Carnegie Hall performance of his new song cycle Cycles of My Being

 
For Immediate Release – Renowned bel canto tenor Lawrence Brownlee will tour the US with Cycles of My Being, a 40-minute work that uses music and poetry to explore what it means to be a black man in modern America. The piece received its premiere this past February with Opera Philadelphia and Chicago Lyric Opera, and was described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as “an existential question delivered in a small moment, and the sensation of a larger meaning coming into focus with a musical gesture.”

Brownlee will perform a vocal and piano arrangement of Cycles of My Being around the US, including the West Coast premiere in San Francisco at the Herbst Theatre on March 31, will give a duet recital with Eric Owens in Boston’s Jordan Hall on April 7, and will offer a concert of spirituals at Princeton University on April 12.
 
The tour lands in New York City on April 24 with a performance of the full arrangement of Cycles of My Being, scored for voice, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano at Carnegie Hall. The all-African American ensemble, conducted by Sorey, features clarinetist Alexander Laing, violinist Randall Mitsuo Goosby, cellist Khari Joyner, and pianist Kevin Miller.

As a preview to the tour, Lawrence will be performing a selection from Cycles of My Being with pianist Myra Huang at The Greene Space at WQXR on March 28.