New Voices Festival 2024: Departures II

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

THursday, May 2, 2024 7:30PM

Pre-Concert Lecture (7:00PM): aida Shirazi

Digital Release Monday, May 20, 2024

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Each work on this program explores the meaning of loss. Katherine Balch’s poignant reimagining of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Iranian-born Aida Shirazi’s meditation on exile with texts by acclaimed poet Sholeh Wolpe, and new works by Matthew Ricketts and Charlotte Bray.

Katherine Balch: Estrangement (BASS Commission)
Charlotte Bray: The Earth Cried out to the Sky (American Premiere)
Matthew Ricketts: The Threefold Terror of Love (World Premiere, BASS Commission)
Aida Shirazi: Language of Loss (World Premiere, BASS Commission)

Lucy Fitz-Gibbon, Charlotte Mundy soprano
Emily Triebold alto
Dominik Belavy baritone
Nathaniel LaNasa, Brent Funderburk, Ryan McCullough piano

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