I Shall Be Brave: A Celebration in Song

Collage New Music presents
I SHALL BE BRAVE: A CELEBRATION IN SONG

Post-Concert Talkback with Artistic Director Eric Nathan and guest soloists

Tony Arnold and Lucy Shelton, SOPRANOS 
William Sharp, BARITONE 
Seth Knopp, PIANO 
Students from Longy's performance programs

Program:

Amy Beach: I Shall Be Brave
Margaret Bonds: When the Dove Enters In
Florence Price: Hold Fast to Dreams
     William Sharp, baritone; Seth Knopp, piano 

Sofia Gubaidulina: Aus den Visionen der Hildegard von Bingen (1994)
     Lucy Shelton, solo soprano 

Hildegard von Bingen: Various Works for chorus
     Tony Arnold and Lucy Shelton, sopranos
     Longy students 

Bernard Rands: Memo 7 (2000)
    Tony Arnold, solo soprano 
    Text by Emily Dickinson (“Bind me—I still can sing”)

Intermission

Eric Nathan: Some Favored Nook (2017; Boston Premiere) 
     Tony Arnold, soprano; William Sharp, baritone; Seth Knopp, piano
     Texts by Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson