BLUE SUN
Company: Nightingale Vocal Ensemble
BLUE SUN
Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 7:00pm
The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul
138 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111
Sunday October 20th, 2024 at 7:00pm
Grace Episcopal Church
14 Boltwood Avenue Amherst, MA 01002
Boston tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blue-sun-tickets-991483201947
Amherst tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blue-sun-tickets-991484997317
un/bodying/s by composer Gregory W. Brown is a sprawling, intricate, and ambitious choral work that explores the history of the populations displaced by the Quabbin Reservoir in Western Massachusetts, including the Native Americans moved by incoming Europeans, and then those Europeans relocated by the State when creating the massive reservoir that supplies Boston with water. Gregory and librettist Todd Hearon combined forces in 2017 to tell these stories from a variety of perspectives, including the history of the wildlife that, like the human refugees, have fled and since returned to this land. The music undulates as if at times floating on water, or hidden under it, or soaring above it, reflecting up. Suddenly a New England hymn will emerge, then be replaced with a more distant, elusive texture, as the eternal search for Atlantis continues.
Nightingale brings this piece to Massachusetts for the first time, performing both in Amherst (near Quabbin) and Boston (where Quabbin’s water flows). The program also includes some shape-note tunes from the New England tradition and a double choir work on a text by Celia Thaxter (also by Brown).
Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 7:00pm
The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul
138 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111
Sunday October 20th, 2024 at 7:00pm
Grace Episcopal Church
14 Boltwood Avenue Amherst, MA 01002
Boston tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blue-sun-tickets-991483201947
Amherst tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blue-sun-tickets-991484997317
un/bodying/s by composer Gregory W. Brown is a sprawling, intricate, and ambitious choral work that explores the history of the populations displaced by the Quabbin Reservoir in Western Massachusetts, including the Native Americans moved by incoming Europeans, and then those Europeans relocated by the State when creating the massive reservoir that supplies Boston with water. Gregory and librettist Todd Hearon combined forces in 2017 to tell these stories from a variety of perspectives, including the history of the wildlife that, like the human refugees, have fled and since returned to this land. The music undulates as if at times floating on water, or hidden under it, or soaring above it, reflecting up. Suddenly a New England hymn will emerge, then be replaced with a more distant, elusive texture, as the eternal search for Atlantis continues.
Nightingale brings this piece to Massachusetts for the first time, performing both in Amherst (near Quabbin) and Boston (where Quabbin’s water flows). The program also includes some shape-note tunes from the New England tradition and a double choir work on a text by Celia Thaxter (also by Brown).
Performances run through
2024-10-20For more information visit
https://www.nightingalevocalensemble.com/blue-sun.html, 7:00 pm
The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul
138 Tremont St
Boston, MA 02111
United States
Type:
Chorus