Words and Music
A Choral Collaboration with Novelist Geraldine Brooks
A Choral Collaboration with Novelist Geraldine Brooks
Words and 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 excerpts 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).
PLUS! Purchase an add-on ticket to the post-concert book signing event with Geraldine Brooks. All proceeds to benefit CONCORA's programs.
Repertoire for this program includes:
PLUS! Purchase an add-on ticket to the post-concert book signing event with Geraldine Brooks. All proceeds to benefit CONCORA's programs.
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
Before Bach & Beyond II
CONCORA's Summer Festival
CONCORA's Summer Festival
CONCORA's Summer Festival offers adults, high school and college singers an opportunity to rehearse and perform great choral works - all under the baton of Artistic Director, Chris Shepard. During this week-long intensive, participants will attend educational workshops, prepare and rehearse alongside CONCORA's professional members, and present a culminating concert for the public. If you love to sing and are looking to hone your skills while making and reconnecting with friends, the CONCORA Summer Festival is for you!
