Voices & Visions
featuring artwork from the New Britain Museum of American Art
featuring artwork from the New Britain Museum of American Art
CONCORA performs works inspired by artwork on display in the permanent galleries at the New Britain Museum for American Art. The music is programmed from the same period as the featured artwork, and projections of the artwork will be shown during the performance, providing a complementary visual and auditory experience audience members.
Led by Artistic Director Chris Shepard and Guest Conductor Ellen Gilson Voth, this program is a audio-visual representation of American art and music throughout the history of the national. Repertoire includes:
Led by Artistic Director Chris Shepard and Guest Conductor Ellen Gilson Voth, this program is a audio-visual representation of American art and music throughout the history of the national. Repertoire includes:
- Chester - William Billings
- Four Pastorales - Cecil Effinger
- Of Distant Skies - Ellen Gilson Voth
- Six Madrigals - William Hawley
- Americana - Randall Thompson
- Fern Hill - John Corigliano
Words & Music
A Choral Collaboration with Novelist Geraldine Brooks
A Choral Collaboration with Novelist Geraldine Brooks
Words & Music: A Choral Collaboration with Novelist Geraldine Brooks is a multimedia performance featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. Brooks will travel to the Greater Hartford and Shoreline regions with CONCORA to read excepts from her novels, in each case followed by choral pieces that reflect the theme of the reading performed by CONCORA under the leadership of Artistic Director Chris Shepard. Brooks’s novels span a wide range of eras and themes such as colonial-era Native Americans (Caleb’s Crossing), the persecution of the Jewish people throughout the centuries (People of the Book), enslaved Black people in the Civil War era (March and Horse), and the marginalization and vilification of women in the Middle Ages (A Year of Wonders).
Repertoire for this program includes:
Repertoire for this program includes:
- Remember not, Lord, our Offenses & Hear My Prayer, O Lord - Henry Purcell
- Barchi Nafshi - Joseph Ness
- When David Heard - Norman Dinnerstein
- Past Life Melodies - Sarah Hopkins
- Hush on the Death of a Bush Church - Iain Grandage
- Five Hebrew Love Songs - Eric Whitacre
- Last Letter Home - Lee Hoiby
- Hear My Prayer - Moses Hogan
- Hold On! - Arranged by Eugene Thamon Simpson.
