Welcome Love
Friday, May 4th, 2007

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A celebration of love in all forms, this concert featured a second performance of our last-commissioned work, Lana Walter's Welcome Love. The four a cappella settings of 17th-century love poems were a chorus favorite from the moment we began preparing them for their premiere in 2004. "She treats us like grownups," was the response from many singers to Ms. Walter's user-friendly but never trivial vocal writing for all parts.

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Growth and Change
Saturday, January 27th, 2007

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This concert featured Amy Beach's The Chambered Nautilus, a major work with lush, impressionistic harmonies we first performed in 2000. Its text, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, challenges the listener to summon the courage to grow and change. We also premiered a new work by Eleanor Epstein. Funded by a major gift from the Gidwitz family in honor of President Sue's bat mitzvah, these newly-commissioned arrangements of Hebrew songs will make a significant contribution to the repertoire of Jewish music for women's voices.