Poetry

Imagining a Better World:The Music of Oliver Caplan

By Richard Knox When Oliver Caplan first encountered “Cloud Anthem” – Richard Blanco’s poem reimagining humans as clouds, rain,...

The Other Side of Eternity

By Richard Knox Every last one of us has had, or will have, an encounter with the Sacred Veil of which the New Hampshire Master Chorale...

As We Gather at the River:Transcending Our Sorrows, Resuming Our Joys

At last: Live music performance, in person, unmasked and undistanced!

We Exist

It begins with one A hundred A thousand A hundred thousand A million. A multitude of murmuring birds flying together A savant wave of...

The Heart of the Singer: Program Notes

The Heart of the Singer: A Contemporary Lament And the Redeeming Power of Music By Richard Knox Master Chorale devotees won’t be...

NHMC Presents Music For Our Contemporary Planetary and Spiritual Condition

The theme of this fall’s New Hampshire Master Chorale two-concert series is “The Heart of the Singer.” That’s also the title of the...

NH Master Chorale Concert Encompasses All of Life

The New Hampshire Master Chorale’s spring concerts, on June 17 in Concord and June 18 in Plymouth, embrace life’s gamut. The program,...

Eve-Absinthe-Alice: The Poems

The poetry of Oliver Caplan's new work "Eve-Absinthe-Alice" comes from the 2013 book "Fire Ashes Wings," a chapbook of poems giving voice...

Eve, Absinthe, Alice: A Conversation with Oliver Caplan

Boston-based composer Oliver Caplan chose three poems of Ruth Kessler’s for his new choral work, Eve Absinthe Alice, commissioned by the...

Eve, Absinthe, Alice: A conversation with Ruth Kessler

The three poems set by composer Oliver Caplan as Eve, Absinthe, Alice - commissioned by the New Hampshire Master Chorale and to be...