Maud Hixson Presents George and Ira: The Brothers Gershwin

Dinner and drinks service starts 1 hour before showtimes.

Storytelling In Jazz And Cabaret

Illuminating the music and lyrics of both Gershwins of the Great American Songbook, who also happened to be brothers. Hear hits from Broadway shows and films from Hollywood’s Golden Age, songs made famous by the likes of Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Judy Garland. Also included are Ira’s later classics in collaboration with Harold Arlen, Kurt Weill, Jerome Kern and Harry Warren.

Maud Hixson vocals

Rick Carlson piano

Hailed as “gently virtuosic” (All About Jazz), singer Maud Hixson is a devoted exponent of great songs, ranging from the classic Great American Songbook to the often unsung or forgotten compositions awaiting rediscovery. Maud is the recipient of four Artist Initiative grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Maud received a Next Step Grant from the McKnight Foundation in 2015 and her most recent Artist Initiative Grant funded a big band project in 2017. In 2016 she made her second appearance at Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center in a tribute to singer Sylvia Syms, hosted by Rex Reed and presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation. After her Chicago debut in 2017, the Chicago Tribune’s Howard Reich proclaimed, “Hixson stood out as the biggest revelation at the Chicago Cabaret Convention”. This year, she releases a new recording project devoted to the songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett.

“Her vocal style is so warm, compelling and intimate—it’s clear she cares about the words and telling the story, with clarity and without artifice—almost a lost art these days.” –Michael Feinstein

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