On Friday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m. the Salisbury Summer Performance Series will host an evening of great American song with Boston-based tenor Joshua Glassman and pianist Sakurako Kanemitsu. Mr. Glassman has performed opera, art song, choral music, musical theater, and cabaret. With degrees from the University of Michigan and the Peabody Institute, he has served on the voice faculty and directed the Glee Club at the University of Pennsylvania and is a former member of the Opera Philadelphia Chorus, the Princeton Festival Baroque Chorus, the Mendelssohn Club and, currently, Boston's Cantata Singers. Ms. Kanemitsu has degrees from the Sacramento (CA) State School of Music and will further her graduate studies at the Longy School of Music at Bard College. She has performed as soloist and chamber pianist in Italy, Germany, and the United States (including the San Francisco Center for New Music and the University of California at Davis). They will be performing songs by George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Marc Blitzstein, along with solo piano works by Gershwin, Debussy, and Blitzstein.

Because of the need to utilize the piano, the concert will occur indoors. We request that you wear a mask unless you have been fully vaccinated, and we welcome those who prefer to remain masked even though they are fully inoculated.

This will be the second of eight concerts in Salisbury's forty-second Summer Performance Series, which will run through August 25 at the historic, but handicapped accessible, 1838 meetinghouse in Salisbury Village. There is no admission charge; a free-will donation in support of the series will be appreciated.