II. Collage New Music presents: “I Shall Be Brave: A Celebration in Song”
Tony Arnold, SOPRANO (2024-25 Collage Artistic Partner)
Lucy Shelton, SOPRANO
William Sharp, BARITONE
Seth Knopp, PIANO
Students from Longy's vocal performance programs
The Ann Teixeira Concert
November 3, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. EDT
Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall (27 Garden St., Cambridge, MA)
Post-Concert Talkback with Artistic Director Eric Nathan and guest soloists
$35 General Admission; $15 Students (Longy Students and Faculty: Free)
ABOUT
Collage presents an intimate vocal concert highlighting 2024-25 Artistic Partner Tony Arnold and friends, including a collaboration with a choir of Longy School of Music students. The program centers on the bravery of finding one’s voice and giving voice to others. The centerpiece is the Boston premiere of Eric Nathan and librettist Mark Campbell’s dramatic song cycle, Some Favored Nook—called “quietly compelling” (Boston Globe) and “the best musical tribute Emily Dickinson has ever received” (Fanfare)—the story of two individuals and their struggles—Emily Dickinson’s to be a poet as a woman in a patriarchal society, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s to fight for the abolition of slavery and advocate for female writers’ voices.
PROGRAM
Amy Beach, I Shall Be Brave
Text by Katherine Adams
Margaret Bonds, When the Dove Enters In
Text by Langston Hughes
Florence Price, Hold Fast to Dreams
Text by Langston Hughes
William Sharp, baritone; Seth Knopp, piano
Sofia Gubaidulina: Aus den Visionen der Hildegard von Bingen (1994)
Lucy Shelton, solo soprano
Hildegard von Bingen: Various Works for chorus
Tony Arnold and Lucy Shelton, sopranos
Longy students
Bernard Rands, Memo 7 (2000)
Text by Emily Dickinson (“Bind me—I still can sing”)
Tony Arnold, solo soprano
Intermission
Eric Nathan, Some Favored Nook (2017; Boston Premiere)
Texts by Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (adapted by Mark Campbell and Eric Nathan)
Tony Arnold, soprano; William Sharp, baritone; Seth Knopp, piano
The concert will conclude by 4:30 p.m.
Please join Collage for Post-Concert Talkback with the artists from the stage, followed by a reception