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WordSong: The Second Coming

Sun, Feb 12

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Killian Hall, MIT

Discover how a single, familiar text can inspire a variety of thoughts and feelings, as we explore four new musical settings for string quartet and mezzo-soprano of Yeats' "The Second Coming," by composers Edmar Colón, Howard Frazin, Elena Ruehr, and Tom Schnauber. Free & open to the public.

WordSong: The Second Coming
WordSong: The Second Coming

Time & Location

Feb 12, 2023, 8:00 PM EST – Feb 13, 2023, 8:00 PM EST

Killian Hall, MIT, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

About the event

Free and open to the public, no registration required. To enter Killian Hall, please use the Building 14 entrance either by the Lewis Music Library or at 160 Memorial Drive.

At Sheffield Chamber Players, we are so proud of our unique way of bringing people together and finding connection through music—but we aren’t alone in trying to reach those goals. With that in mind, we are excited to collaborate with the folks at WordSong on a project to bring new music and new connections to life. Composers Howard Frazin and Tom Schnauber created the WordSong project to produce engaging performance events which provide incredible inroads into the craft and creative process of composing. Each of their forums features newly written pieces for voice and instruments from multiple composers, all based on an identical text. Following the performance, the forum continues with a discussion from the point of view of the…

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