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Night of Song
Mar 14, 2022 — 7:00 PM
Overview
The CSO MusicNOW series returns for an evening celebrating today’s leading composers of contemporary art song. Vocalists Joelle Lamarre and Damien Geter illuminate works by Chicago-area composer Shawn Okpebholo, alongside new arrangements by Ayanna Woods from her co-composed opera FORCE!* and the world premiere of a new piece by Geter. Dale Trumbore’s song cycle summons a chamber ensemble of CSO musicians to accompany Robin Myers’ poem about finding meaning in the coarseness of everyday life.
Arrive early to purchase a one-of-a-kind poem from the Poems While You Wait collective and take home your own souvenir from this celebration of poetry and music.
Program
Woods
I Dream [World Premiere Arrangement]*
Trumbore
The Gleam
Geter
The Bronze Legacy [CSO MusicNOW Commission, World Premiere]
Woods
A Reckoning [World Premiere Arrangement]*
Okpebholo
Ballad of Birmingham from Two Black Churches [World Premiere Arrangement]
Okpebholo
Oh, Glory [World Premiere Arrangement]
*
"A Reckoning" and "I Dream" are excerpted from FORCE!, an opera in three acts, co-composed by Ayanna Woods, Anna Martine Whitehead, Angel Bat Dawid and Philip Armstrong, with words by Anna Martine Whitehead.
Performers
Sponsors & Partners
Major support for CSO MusicNOW is generously provided by the Zell Family Foundation, Cindy Sargent, the Sally Mead Hands Foundation and the Julian Family Foundation.