Henry & Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance
Established in 1959 with a gift from the Louis and Henrietta Blaustein Foundation
Inc., the Rosenberg Foundation honors the late Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg '21 and her
late husband, Henry A. Rosenberg. Since 1960, the foundation has enriched the music
program at Goucher College by funding the Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance.
Each year, income from an endowment provided by the Rosenberg Foundation brings a
musical group, performing artist, composer, or musicologist to the campus to present
a free lecture and performance. The Rosenberg Foundation recently made an additional
contribution to the fund that will continue the lecture-performance series for years
to come.
Spring 2024
An Evening With Cécile McLorin Salvant: The 62nd Annual Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture Performance
February 24, 2024 // 7 p.m. // Kraushaar Auditorium
The 62nd Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance presents the multiple Grammy Award- winning vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant in concert, followed by an in-depth on- stage interview with WYPR’s Tom Hall. General public, $30, Goucher students, faculty, and staff, free.
Cécile McLorin Salvant is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The Late Jessye Norman described Salvant as “a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings.” Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions from around the world, theater, jazz, and baroque music. Salvant is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor. Salvant won the Thelonius Monk competition in 2010. She has received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for three consecutive albums, “The Window,” “Dreams and Daggers,” and “For One To Love,” and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album “WomanChild.” In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. “Ghost Song” , Salvant’s debut for Nonesuch Records, was released in March 2022 to critical acclaim, and has gone on to receive two Grammy Nominations.
Previous Rosenberg Artists
2023 The Branford Marsalis Quartet
2020 Septura Brass Septet
2019 Anthony McGill
2018 Concert Artists of Baltimore, Edward Polochick, Artistic Director
2017 New York Voices
2016 Ray Chen
2015 Alessio Bax
2014 Eddie Palmieri
2013 Canadian Brass
2012 Simone Dinnerstein
2011 Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet
2010 Leon Fleisher
2009 Nathan Gunn
2008 Wu Man
2006 Joe Lovano Quartet
2005 Cyrus Chestnut Trio
2004 Eugenia Zukerman
2003 Misha and Cipa Dichter
2002 Susanne Mentzer
2001 Mendelssohn String Quartet
2000 Paula Robison
1999 Vladimir Feltsman
1998 Christopher Parkening
1997 Horacio Gutiérrez
1996 Billy Taylor Trio
1995 Garrick Ohlsson
1994 Emanuel Ax
1993 Jean-Pierre Rampal
1992 Andre Watts
1990 Marilyn Horne
1990 Lynn Harrell
1989 Victor Borge
1988 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
1987 Yo-Yo Ma
1986 Roberta Peters
1985 Beaux Arts Trio
1984 Max Morath
1983 Julius Rudel, Philip Glass, Jacquelyn Silver, and Gwendolyn Bradley
1981 Juilliard String Quartet
1980 Beverly Sills
1980 Isaac Stern
1978 Gunther Schuller
1976 Yehudi Menuhin
1976 Mstislav Rostropovich
1974 Marilyn Horne
1973 Boris Goldovsky
1972 Jennie Tourel
1970 Erich Leinsdorf
1969 Milton Babbitt and Anna Sokolow
1968 Ravi Shankar
1967 Ernst Krenek
1966 Michael Tippett
1964 Aaron Copland
1963 Aaron Copland
1962 Virgil Thomson
1961 Nadia Boulanger
1960 75 Years of American Music with Roger Sessions, Wallingford Riegger, William Austin, and Chamber Concert Orchestra under the direction of Elliot Galkin