A champion of the American song, Hampson's collaboration with the Library
materializes as a 12-city concert tour across the United States, highlighting
the Library's unparalleled collections of songs through concerts, recordings
and Webcasts. Hampson's repertoire spans the gamut of the American song,
from the 1700s to the present, and emphasizes its context in society,
ranging from Psalm settings and hymns, folksongs and cowboy songs, to
war songs and African American spirituals.
A new Web site devoted
to the Hampson tour and related events and activities is now available.
There, you can access the tour
schedule and learn how to get free tickets. A "Resources
for Teachers" section offers teacher-tested lesson plans for
studying, though the use of primary sources, music in the classroom.