Environmental Issues Reflected in Music - Middlesex Community College
Saturday, November 2, 2019 3:00pm
MCC Concert Hall (North Academic Building), Bedford Campus
591 Springs Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
The faculty ensemble will perform
A Bequest
, an intense what-if view of species' extinction, with text from Edward O. Wilson's The Future of Life. Robert Bekker, guitar; Orlando Cela, flute; Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, piano; Anna Ward, soprano.
(They'll do
How Spiders Came to Hawaii
at a later date.)
Henning Ensemble - Woburn and Danvers
Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 1:00pm
Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 1:00pm
Holy Trinity United Methodist Church,
16 Sylvan St
, Danvers, MA 01923
On this 45-minute program:
• Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me
by
Pamela Marshall
, a
sung and spoken reading of a poem by Sarah Getty.
• Three works by
Karl Henning
:
Marginalia
,
These Unlikely Events #2
, and
A Heart So White
, a scene from Macbeth (the connection to my piece about restless sleep).
Ensemble members are
Amanda Sindel-Keswick
mezzo-soprano;
Sudie Marcuse
soprano; Ellen Elizabeth Allen violin;
Peter H. Bloom
and Carol Epple flutes; Pamela Marshall French horn; and Karl Henning conductor & percussion.
Facebook event links:
Saturday November 23, 2019 8:00pm
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian, 155 Powder House Blvd, Somerville, MA 02144
Sunday November 24, 2019 7:00pm
New School of Music, 25 Lowell St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Premiere of
Birding in Winter
, setting a poem I absolutely love, that captures perfectly the feel of being outdoors in the invigorating cold, watching birds, by local writer Susan Edwards Richmond. Triad will also sing
Bee-Song
and
Grand Grand Mother is returning
, from my cantata
The Future of Life
. We share conducting duties, and I'll conduct music by Charles Turner and Karl Henning.
Check the Triad website
for a full music list.
Christmas music
>
First Parish in Weston, Advent Service, December 8,
Shepherds and Angels
, old American Christmas songs for choir, violin and harp.
PS
The performance of
Through the Mist
on Nov 3 by the Arlington Philharmonic has been postponed to a later season.
