The October Sunday Songbook Series at Springfield Contemporary Theatre Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza will present Springfield native Steven Tharp in an intimate cabaret evening of music from the Great American Songbook. It's Sunday October 22 at 7:00p.m. Steven Tharp made his name as an opera and concert tenor performing at, among other opera houses, the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Netherlands Opera, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and the opera houses of Karslruhe, Germany and Palermo, Italy. As a fixture on the concert stage Tharp has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Mexico, Great Performers at Lincoln Center and a host of others. I talked with Tharp by phone from his office in the Music Department at University of Missouri-Columbia about the performance. (Full disclosure: Steve is one of my oldest and dearest friends; we graduated from Glendale High School
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