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Published on April 10th, 2018 | by Landon Buford

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KATHLEEN BATTLE Underground Railroad – A Spiritual Journey June 28, 2018

 

Photo Credit – AT&T Performing Arts Center

The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center announced today that tickets for Kathleen Battle: Underground Railroad – A Spiritual Journey would go on sale Sunday, April 8 at 10 a.m. The legendary opera star and five-time Grammy Award-winner will perform for one night only at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 28, 2018, at the Winspear Opera House in the downtown Dallas Arts District. Ms. Battle’s recital will explore traditional spirituals and the writings of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass through songs and readings. The evening’s program is designed to include local performers, including the South Dallas Concert Choir, with narration and readings by Dr. Sheron Patterson, Pastor, The Park – Hamilton Park United Methodist Church and

David S. Huntley, Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer at AT&T, Inc.

 

Center Members get access to the best available tickets. Call Membership

Services at 214-978-2888 or go to www.attpac.org/support to join. Center

Circle presale begins April 2 at 10 a.m.

 

Ticket prices for Kathleen Battle: Underground Railroad – A Spiritual Journey range from $29-$89 and can be purchased, beginning April 8 at 10 a.m., online at www.attpac.org, or by phone at 214-880-0202, or in person at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Winspear Opera House Box Office at 2403 Flora Street. The Box Office will open 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and before performances – closed Saturdays and Sundays.

 

Five-time Grammy Award Winner, Kathleen Battle’s luminous voice has been

called “ …without qualification, one of the very few most beautiful in the

world.” (The Washington Post)

 

Throughout a remarkable career that has brought her to the stages of the

world’s leading opera houses and major concert halls, critics never have

tired of rhapsodizing over her limpid, unmistakable sound.

 

Since her student years, Kathleen Battle has collaborated with colleagues who rank among the world’s most talented musicians. She has been a favorite soloist with the world’s leading orchestras and esteemed conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Sir Georg Solti, Riccardo Muti, James Levine, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Mazell, Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin, and Sir Neville Marriner. Her partnerships with soprano Jessye Norman, tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo, violinist Itzhak Perlman, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, guitarist Christopher Parkening, flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal and Hubert Laws, and the late saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr., to name but a few, are documented on numerous recordings and video discs.

 

Kathleen Battle won accolades for the world premiere of “Honey and Rue,”

commissioned by Carnegie Hall for its 100th Anniversary, and written for her

by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and composer Andre Previn.

 

Kathleen Battle’s gifts as a singer extend beyond the realm of classical

music. Her work as a great interpreter of spirituals is well documented.

Always seeking to expand her artistic horizons, Ms. Battle was joined by

stellar jazz musicians for her first crossover album, “So Many Stars.”

 

Ms. Battle has been inducted into the “NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame,”

the “Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame,” and was the first recipient of the Ray

Charles Award, bestowed upon her in 2005 by Wilberforce University in Ohio.

 

In addition to 8 Honorary Doctorates, 5 Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award,

Ms. Battle was the first American to receive the Laurence Olivier Award, the British equivalent of a Tony Award.


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