BRINGING CHAMBER MUSIC HOME
WordSong: The Second Coming
Sun, Feb 19
|Private home
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. RSVP to request an invitation.
Time & Location
Feb 19, 2023, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Private home, Newton, MA, USA
About the event
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Suggested donation $30—50 per guest
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 audience. The WordSong mission speaks of trying to throw out the outdated model of simply “playing music at the audience,”…