Friday, March 26, 2010; 8-10:30pm
Art Theatre Long Beach
2025 E. 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90814 [Directions]
One of America's foremost living composers, equally at home on Broadway and the opera stage, accompanies himself singing his songs. His rich, expressive voice makes his music and lyrics speak from the heart.
Then come and see his Orpheus & Euridice at the Belmont Plaza Swimming Pool June 11, 12, 13!
If the music of Ricky Ian Gordon had to be defined by a single quality, it would be the bursting effervescence infusing songs that blithely blur the lines between art song and the high-end Broadway music of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. -The New York Times
Listen to Ricky play his music