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