CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON CONCERT STREAM AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND THROUGH NOV 17
On November 12, Nick joined the genre-bending string quartet Brooklyn Rider for a program at the Celebrity Series of Boston that included premieres by Rufus Wainwright and Nico Muhly alongside works by Thomas Campion and Franz Schubert.
The concert remains available for on-demand streaming at the Celebrity Series of Boston website through November 18 at 7pm Eastern. More information and tickets can be found HERE.
“Jacobsen’s arrangement of Wainwright’s Trois valses anglaises, was heard its local premiere…Phan proved an ideal advocate for this piece. Of course, he was aided by Wainwright’s utterly natural text settings. But the singer’s ability to evince the bittersweet essence of each song was remarkable, as was his effortless projection in the exposed, upper register moments.
…In this Boston premiere, [Muhly’s] Stranger proved riveting Friday night, and Phan sang his part with fervor. Indeed, the intensity with which he delivered the music’s century-old (but, evidently, ageless) observations of Christian hypocrisy and abject racial bias was made all the more powerful by his discreet underlining of the common humanity shared by these diverse writers: concerns for health, enjoyment of food, love for spouses and children are, after all, universal…”