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Even before 2004 we were having
successful concerts! Here are some highlights:
- American Quilt. May 2003. Pieces involving quilt-like juxtapositions. A medieval
mystical text unexpectedly set over a repeated scat pattern, or to
vibraphone and marimba accompaniment. Familiar folk songs with interpolated
lyrics, or even a no-holds-barred swing piano accompaniment. Blues rhythm
and canonic counterpoint, not often found on the same program, coexisting
in the same piece. The result wass a vibrant and engaging repertoire,
most enjoyable for us to prepare.
- Seasons
of Her Life May 2002. Music illustrating just that, including
"The Harp Weaver", Elinor Remick Warren's musical adaptation of
Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1922 Pulitzer Prize-winning poem.
- In My Mother's House February 2002. Songs about the Virgin
Mary, and songs about "other" mothers, including "Nancy Hanks"
by Katherine K. Davis, and the Triangle area premiere of Lana
Walter's "Magnificat".
-
Where There Is Love May 2001. Music expressing different
aspects of love, including "Three Flower Songs" by Amy Beach,
and "Mag auch heiss das Scheiden brennen" by Mary Wurm.
- Songs of the City February 2001. The Triangle area premiere
of Gwyneth Walker's "My Girls", on texts by the African-American
poet Lucille Clifton.
- A Room of Her Own September 2000. Music honoring the times
and places women have found to compose or to sing music together,
including an arrangement by Amy Beach of Oliver Wendell Holmes'
poem "The Chambered Nautilus", pieces by Hildegard of Bingen and
Ysaye Barnwell (of Sweet Honey in the Rock), and an audience sing-a-long
of "The March of the Women", a suffrage song, by Dame Ethel Smyth.
- Pacific Rim: A Farewell to Old England Forever May 2000.
Our first commissioned piece: "Magnificat 'Regina coeli'" by
Katherine Dienes of New Zealand, as well as "Past Life Melodies"
by Sarah Hopkins and Helen Caskie's "Three New Zealand Country
Songs".
- Promised Land: Music for Passover and Easter May 1999.
"Go Down, Moses" and other spirituals by Marylou India Jackson,
three sections of Lana Walter's "Petite Mass", and music by Katherine
Dienes*.
- Music for a New World January 1999
- Music Hath Charms May 1998
- Lilith, Diana, Mary January 1998
- Wade in the Water: Spirituals and other Music May 1997.
Including "Dream Song" by Mabel Wheeler Daniels.
-
Christmas Concert December 1996
- Cradle of Fire: Women's Experiences of War June 1996. Ranked
by Spectator magazine as one of the Triangle's ten best
classical concerts of 1996. Included "The Captives' Hymn" and
"Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony" by Margaret Dryburgh.
- Vivaldi Magnificat January 1996
- Mystery, Madness, Nonsense May 1995
- Votes for Women January 1995. Revivals of songs from the
women's suffrage movement, including "Votes for Women" by Mary
Louise Carlton, and "Three March-songs" by Adelaide Thomas.
- Spring concert May 1994. "Three Shakespeare Songs*" by
Amy Beach and spirituals arranged by Mary Lou India Jackson.
- Images of Women in Music January 1994. "March of the Women*"
and "Laggard Dawn" by Ethel Smyth, and "Les sirenes" by Lili
Boulanger.
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