Over There: The Boys Who Went to Fight and the Women Who Endured

In the last weeks that the Massachusetts Historical Society is displaying the WWI exhibition “Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country,” we will host two events that explore the cultural and musical history of the time. The first program will be an approximately 70 minute program of songs telling the story of the U.S.’s involvement in WWI and its effects on the women, men and children.  Starting from before the U.S. entered the war until after the war when the “boys came home”, the program will feature some of the most popular songs of the era including “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary”, “Till We Meet Again”, “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning”, “Over There” and “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm.”

Benjamin Sears & Bradford Conner have been called “Boston’s favorite song duo” by the Boston Globe, and “the delightful cabaret team” by the Boston Phoenix.  Recipients of IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) and LIP (Life in Provincetown) awards, they have performed as a duo since 1989, carrying on the great cabaret tradition of “the song, the singer, and the pianist”.  They are noted recording artists with a discography which features many previously unrecorded songs by Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, and E.Y. Harburg. 

Cynthia Mork, mezzo-soprano, is a performer of classical repertoire, American popular song and jazz, appearing around greater Boston and New England in a variety of concerts, recitals, operas, and other engagements. A vocal student of soprano Sue Ellen Kuzma for over ten years, she studied vocal performance as an undergraduate and was a student of tenor Jon Humphrey.  She currently resides with her husband and son in Bedford, MA.

Please call 617-646-0578 to register