by Tevya Washburn | Jan 23, 2000 | Past Concerts
Music honoring the times and places women have found to compose or to sing music together, including an arrangement by Amy Beach of Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem “The Chambered Nautilus”, pieces by Hildegard of Bingen and Ysaye Barnwell (of Sweet Honey...
by Tevya Washburn | May 23, 1999 | Past Concerts
This program celebrates Jews’ and Christians’ spring festivals of redemption and new life. In particular, it honors the rôle of women. Through our music, we have walked in the steps of Miriam, Moses’s sister, who led the Hebrew women in a song of...
by Tevya Washburn | Jan 24, 1999 | Past Concerts
This program celebrated our European and African ancestors who came to the New World. Some brought shiploads of material possessions — tools, household goods, books and manuscripts. Some, like the slaves, brought only themselves. All of them brought their...
by Tevya Washburn | May 31, 1998 | Past Concerts
The program, with the Meredith Girls’ Chorale conducted by Fran Page as our guest ensemble, included works by Elinor Remick Warren, Barrie Cabena, Amy Beach, Alice Parker, and Salem, N.C. composer Margaret Vardell Sandresky. As we prepared our program for...
by Tevya Washburn | Mar 27, 1998 | Past Concerts
Performed on Friday, March 27, 1998. Program The Press Gang – Northumbrian folk song, arr. Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987) In the Bleak Midwinter – Frances McCollin (1893-1962); text: Christina Rossetti Songs of Sunrise – Dame Ethel Mary Smyth...
