by Tevya Washburn | Jan 27, 2007 | Past Concerts
This concert on January 27, 2007, featured Amy Beach’s The Chambered Nautilus, a major work with lush, impressionistic harmonies we first performed in 2000. Its text, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, challenges the listener to summon the courage to grow and change. We...
by Tevya Washburn | May 5, 2006 | Past Concerts
On Friday, May 5, 2006, Women’s Voices Chorus performed an airborne program of music inspired by things that fly. Mendelssohn’s “Surrexit pastor bonus,” with its Easter angel dialogue; Emma Lou Diemer’s Hope is the Thing , a suite of...
by Tevya Washburn | Jan 21, 2006 | Past Concerts
What is it that makes music from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales speak to us so clearly? Partly it is our common language: we will usually understand the words. British music is also eminently singable. Is it their heritage of folk tunes that has shaped British...
by Tevya Washburn | May 6, 2005 | Past Concerts
A salt-water program on Friday, May 6, 2005, featuring Amy Beach’s “The Sea Faeries”, the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “From the Green Heart of the Waters,” Leonie Holmes’s “The Estuary,” and a...
by Tevya Washburn | Jan 23, 2005 | Past Concerts
From sacred music about mountains—specifically, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem—to music inspired by mountains to music from the mountains, particularly fiddle tunes and folk songs from our own Appalachians, this concert was a musical mountain tour. Highlights: Nicola...
