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Our inaugural New Voices Festival brings the start of an essential event for modern song. This festival takes the tradition that created countless masterpieces and re-imagines it for the 21st-century. 15 works by living composers, half of them world-premieres, reflect on the past and look toward the future.
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New Voices III
Streaming Saturday 6/12/21 7:30PM
The New Voices finale looks back at BASS’s commissioned works from the last five years, celebrating its impressive past as it looks forward to its exciting future.
New Voices II
Streaming Saturday 5/15/21 7:30PM
Each work in the second New Voices program takes a text from the past and gives it a new perspective, including words by Anna Akmatova, George Eliot, Christina Rosetti, Walt Whitman, and more.
New Voices I
Streaming Saturday 4/10/21 7:30PM
In this program the idiosyncratic Balliett Brothers re-set Schubert’s final masterpiece Schwanengesang in their own musical voices, and Katherine Balch’s new work takes a new look at Schumann’s masterful Dichterliebe from the female’s perspective, with newly commissioned poetry by Katie Ford.