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    Songs of Hope - June 15/16
    • Jun 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    Songs of Hope - June 15/16

    Written by Richard Knox Hope is the theme of the New Hampshire Master Chorale’s spring concerts, on June 15 in Concord and June 16 in Plymouth – why we need to hope, how dark and despairing life is without it. Master Chorale director Dan Perkins says the concert program was inspired by Hope On, a recent composition by Polish-American Martin Sedek that the composer calls “socially conscious music.” “Sedek challenges us to maintain hope in today’s social, economic, environmenta
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    We Exist
    • Jun 13, 2018
    • 2 min

    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 wings Filling the sky with sound And human minds with meditations on migrations. We exist not in parts but wholes. Whole bodies Whole hearts Whole generations With whole dreams about their whole and holy future We exist not to flash but to sizzle to fight with a heat and love with a heat and live with a heat so strong it propels us upwards desp
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    NH Master Chorale Concert Encompasses All of Life
    • May 30, 2017
    • 4 min

    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, titled From Time to Time, ranges from the innocent hope embodied in a newborn baby to the funk and lustiness of youth, and from the dawning sense of life’s limitations in middle age to the poignancy of failing health and memory in the twilight years. The centerpiece is a new commissioned work provocatively entitled Smoking, Drinking, Messing Ar
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    Eve-Absinthe-Alice: The Poems
    • Nov 14, 2016
    • 1 min

    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 to women in myths and the arts written by Ruth Kessler. The three poems below were selected by Oliver as the basis for this premiere. Earlier this month we conducted interviews with both Oliver and Ruth which can be read HERE and HERE. Come hear this poetry performed at the premiere of Eve-Absinthe-Alice in Concord and Plymouth, NH on Novem
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    Eve, Absinthe, Alice: A Conversation with Oliver Caplan
    • Nov 11, 2016
    • 6 min

    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 New Hampshire Master Chorale for premiere performances on November 19 and 20, 2016. The poems are among 17 depicting women from myth, art and literature, published under the title Fire Ashes Wings. Eve – the mother of us all, Genesis tells us – tastes a forbidden fruit that awakens a world of knowledge. Addressing Posterity, she rues the bla
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    Giving Voice to Women: New Hampshire Master Chorale Weaves a Rich Choral Tapestry from Female Perspe
    • Nov 8, 2016
    • 4 min

    Giving Voice to Women: New Hampshire Master Chorale Weaves a Rich Choral Tapestry from Female Perspe

    The opening program of the New Hampshire Master Chorale’s 14th season is all about women. There are choral settings of poems written from a woman’s point of view; songs about mythical, fictional and historical women; and pieces by female composers. The program is called “Eve, Absinthe, Alice” after its centerpiece – a new choral work commissioned by the Master Chorale that will receive its world premiere on November 19 at 8 p.m. at the Eagle Square Atrium in Concord and Novem
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