March of the Women Series

 
 

We celebrated the centennial of the 19th amendment in the fall of 2020 with a 3-part series of works by women composers of the past and present, and are thrilled to re-release a selection of these performances in our On Demand Library:

PART 1: FOR THOSE WE’VE LOST…

Powerful music in honor of all of the lives lost this year to violence and to the pandemic, featuring Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater and pieces by Nancy Galbraith and Gilda Lyons.

Program:
Nancy Galbraith - Music When Soft Voices Die
Gilda Lyons - Hold On
Julia Perry - Stabat Mater

Artists:
Lucia Bradford, mezzo-soprano
Helen Zhibing Huang, soprano
Timothi Williams, mezzo-soprano
Sandro Leal-Santiesteban & Maureen Conlon Gutierrez, violin
Si Yu, viola
Elise Feagley, cello
Jesica Sharp Crewe, double bass
Karen Jeng Lin and Jesse Leong, piano

PART 2: FOUR CENTURIES OF SONG

Anna Singer is composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth looking back on what it was like to be a composer and a woman in Rachel Peters’ Ethel Smyth Plays Golf in Limbo, kicking off an inspiring survey of art song by women from the 17th through 20th centuries.

Works by:
Ethel Smyth, Rachel J. Peters, Barbara Strozzi, Anna Amalia, Isabella Colbran, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot, Amy Beach, Alma Mahler, Rebecca Clarke, Lili Boulanger, Florence Price, and Undine Smith Moore

Artists:
Anna Singer as Ethel Smyth
Charlene Canty, soprano
Helen Zhibing Huang, soprano
Lara Lynn McGill, soprano
Maria Lopez, mezzo-soprano
Timothi Williams, mezzo-soprano
Karen Jeng Lin, Jesse Leong,
Zach Neufeld, and Rob Frankenberry, piano

PART 3: VOICES OF TODAY

Music written in the last 5 years, including a world premiere, works by Carnegie Mellon alums, and a set of songs from Sing Out Strong: Immigrant Voices, which premiered alongside the world premiere of the opera “I Am a Dreamer Who no Longer Dreams” last fall by Boston’s White Snake Projects. Our production of Dreamer has been postponed a year, but two of our cast will perform these songs, created by writers and composers with connections to the immigrant experience.

Works by:
Missy Mazzoli, Annika Socolofsky, Katherine Pukinskis, Michele Cheng, Marina Lopez, Sheela Ramesh, Celka Ojakangas, and Gilda Lyons

Artists:
Helen Zhibing Huang, soprano
Maria Lopez, mezzo-soprano
Timothi Williams, mezzo-soprano
Dawn Posey, violin
Katya Janpoladyan, cello
Karen Jeng Lin and Zach Neufeld, piano
Members of the Resonance Chamber Orchestra