Weekend Concert Series
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
with Myra Huang, piano
Sunday
November 16, 2025
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
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One of America’ greatest mezzo-sopranos, Sasha Cooke takes a night off from the global operatic stage to bring the Gardner Museum a program of American songs, including a Museum-commissioned world premiere from Jasmine Barnes. Cooke’s program is the perfect upbeat to the country’s imminent semisesquicentennial.
Photo Credit: Stephanie Girard
Works
Charles Ives Circus Band (1894)
Sergei Rachmaninoff I Wait for You (1894)
Alma Mahler Laue Sommernacht (1910)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Was Du mir bist (1930)
George Gershwin Of Thee I Sing (1931)
Kurt Weill Youkali (1934)
Samuel Barber Sure on this Shining Night (1938)
Aaron Copland At the River (1952)
H. Leslie Adams Prayer (1961)
Stephen Sondheim The Boy From… (1966)
John Musto Recuerdo (1988)
Michael Tilson Thomas Grace (1988)
John Kander A Letter from Sullivan Balou (1999)
Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan Give Me Jesus (1999)
William Bolcom Blue (2009)
Jennifer Higdon Summer Hue (2021)
Jake Heggie Crossing Borders (2025)
Jasmine Barnes American Lament (2025) World-premiere ISGM co-commission
Program subject to change
Artists
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Myra Huang, piano
Seating Sections and Rates
Performance Level and First Balcony:
Members $65, Adults $85, Seniors $75, Students & Children ages 7–17 $20
Second Balcony:
Members $40, Adults $65, Seniors $55, Students & Children 7-17 $20
Third Balcony:
Members $30, Adults $50, Seniors $45, Students & Children ages 7–17 $20
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This concert is made possible by the generous support of David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder.
Music at the Gardner is supported by Nora McNeely Hurley / Manitou Fund. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Nicie and Jay Panetta, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
