EVENTS
Season 45 / 2019-2020
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Join us for a wonderful evening of music from the 21nd century.

✦ Pre-Concert Forum at 6:30 PM
✦ Reception Following Performance
Andrew Kosinski ✦ Bar Fight of the Marionettes (2018) (Young Composers Competition Winner)
Aaron Samadzada ✦ Spring Gales & Nightingales (2018) (Young Composers Competition Winner)
Andrew Rudin ✦ Circadia (2015)
John Corigliano ✦ Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (2000)
Featuring Alissa Roca, Soprano
Tambourine
and Rhythms
October 6, 2019
Sunday at 7:30 PM
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Caruth Auditorium
SMU/Meadows
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My Soul Dances
November 24, 2019
Sunday at 7:30 PM
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Caruth Auditorium
SMU/Meadows
Join us for an evening celebrating African-American Composers, both familiar and unfamiliar.
✦ Pre-Concert Forum at 6:30 PM
✦ Special Guest: Sho-mei Pelletier - Illustrator for "Coloring Book of Black Composers" Order Book At:
✦ Coloring Contest Winners!
David Baker ✦ Deliver My Soul (1993) for violin & piano
Brian Nabors ✦ 7 Dances for flute, clarinet & cello (2018 Rapido© Winner)
George Walker ✦ String Quartet No. 1 (1946) for 2 violins, viola, & cello
Valerie Coleman ✦ Fanmi Imen (2005) for flute & piano
T. J. Anderson ✦ Echoes (1988) for oboe & bassoon
Scott Joplin ✦ Assorted Rags (early 1900s)
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Postcards & Impressions
February 16, 2020
Sunday at 7:30 PM
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Caruth Auditorium
SMU/Meadows
Join us for the 3rd concert of our 45th Season.
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✦ Pre-Concert Forum at 6:30 PM
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John Psathas ✦ Matres Dance (1993) for percussion & piano
Charles Ives ✦ Sonata No. 3 (1914) for violin & piano
Claude Debussy ✦ Trio (1915) for flute, viola & harp
Stacy Garrop ✦ Postcards from Wyoming (2017) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
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SOLUNA:
Song From The Uproar
April 19, 2020 Sunday at 2:00 PM
April 20, 2020 Monday at 7:30 PM
April 21, 2020 Tuesday at 7:30 PM
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Nancy B. Hamon Hall
Winspear Opera House
Due to the CoVid-19 Coronavirus epidemic, we are postponing our "Song from the Uproar" performances. Stay tuned for new performance dates.
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We have a very special event to conclude our 45th Season - A part of the 2020 SOLUNA Festival, this performance series will be an immersive, intimate and thought-provoking contemporary performance. This is a not to be missed performance with very limited seating.
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Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt
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Featuring:
MISSY MAZZOLI COMPOSER
ROYCE VAVREK LIBRETTO
VERDIGRIS ENSEMBLE
VOICES OF CHANGE
BRONWYN WHITE MEZZO-SOPRANO
JOSHUA L. PEUGH STAGE DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY
UTD ATEC LIGHTSQUAD PROJECTIONS OMAR DAVILA | PABLO REYES
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After experiencing the death of her parents and brother in quick succession, Isabelle Eberhardt, a native of Switzerland, travelled alone to Algeria. Against societal norms, Eberhardt dressed as a man, joined the Algerian army, married an Algerian soldier, converted to Islam and was initiated into Qadiriyya, a Sufi order. Singers and instrumentalists tell Eberhardt’s story from the remaining fragments of her writing, with newly commissioned staging, choreography and immersive projections. This innovative restaging of American composer Missy Mazzoli’s opera in one act, Song from the Uproar will be an intimate and thought-provoking contemporary performance that addresses themes of gender identity and mental health.
NOTE: Voices of Change and Verdigris Season Subscribers will have first choice of attending this event. Each VOC Season Subscription will include one (1) ticket to your choice of one (1) of the three (3) performances. Please select your date preference when purchasing your Season Subscription(s).