New Voices Festival: Confessions I

Friday, April 1, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, April 21, 2022

First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, 119 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Eve Beglarian’s finish what i haven’t started explores “a certain kind of female unhappiness” through the poetry of Lucille Clifton, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, and others. Reinaldo Moya’s Noctorno on poetry by Ruben Dario explores our darkest emotions. Searing works by some of today’s best young composers round out this program.

Eve Beglarian finish what i haven’t started (World Premiere)
Shawn Jaeger: Resignation
Reinaldo Moya: Nocturno (World Premiere)
Missy Mazzoli: Lorca in the Bronx
Carlos Simon: Dead Fires, Night Fall
Sarah Kirkland Snider: How Graceful Some Things Are, Falling Apart
Nina C. Young: Swan Song

Mary Bonhag, Soprano
Devony Smith, Kate Maroney, Mezzo soprano
Jesse Blumberg, Baritone
Joel Harder, Danny Zelibor, Mike Brofman, piano

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