by Tevya Washburn | May 31, 2002 | Past Concerts
Music illustrating just that, including “The Harp Weaver”, Elinor Remick Warren’s musical adaptation of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s 1922 Pulitzer Prize-winning poem, with guest artists Gerald Whittington, baritone, and Emily Laurance, harp; and...
by Tevya Washburn | Feb 3, 2002 | Past Concerts
Music honoring mothers. The first part presents sacred music devoted to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and to the Church as a mother. The second part celebrates “other” mothers, including adoptive mothers and stepmothers, in all the feisty imperfection many of...
by Tevya Washburn | May 12, 2001 | Past Concerts
Music about divine and human love. The first half of the program dwells on the power of sacrificial love to bring healing and peace to a troubled world. The second half begins by portraying the rocky course of romantic love: longing, rejection, and separation. Only at...
by Tevya Washburn | Feb 4, 2001 | Past Concerts
The Triangle area premiere of Gwyneth Walker’s “My Girls”, on texts by the African-American poet Lucille Clifton. This concert brings you musical images of the City. When most people lived on farms, the city was often an idealized image, a utopia of...
by Tevya Washburn | May 9, 2000 | Past Concerts
Our first commissioned piece: “Magnificat ‘Regina coeli'” by Katherine Dienes of New Zealand, as well as “Past Life Melodies” by Sarah Hopkins and Helen Caskie’s “Three New Zealand Country Songs”. Performed on May 9,...
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...
