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
New Voices Festival: Confessions III
Friday, June 3, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, June 20, 2022
An evening-length “cornucopia of song” from Daron Hagen, one of today’s most important American composers. A work at once epic and intimate- a landmark in 21st-century American art song.
New Voices Festival: Confessions II
Friday, May 6, 2022 7:30PM
Digital Release: Monday, May 23, 2022
This program of vocal chamber music includes the world premiere of Lembit Beecher’s After the Fires, based on interviews with his own family and their community. Also on the program, David Ludgwig’s epic cycle about North Carolina’s Bleeding Pines and works for strings and voice by Marcos Balter, Amy Beth Kirsten, Jessica Meyer, Jesse Montgomery and Jane Sheldon.