Baritone Harrison Hintzsche and pianist Michelle Schumann offer a program of American song in celebration and examination of the nation’s 250th year of independence. This private salon recital helps to open the Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s 2026 Summer Festival.

PROGRAM:

Stephen Foster: Beautiful Dreamer

Charles Ives: Circus Band

H. T. Burleigh: Ethiopia Saluting the Colors

Margaret Bonds: I Believe in Liberty (from Credo)

John Musto: Litany

Excerpts from Steven Mark Kohn’s American Folk Set:

• Wanderin’

• The Bachelor’s Lay

• The Old Woman’s Courtship

• California

Gene Scheer: American Anthem

This event is by invitation only.