Concerts & Events

Still Heard Round the World: A Celebration of Music Written by and for Women

In honor of the 250^th anniversary of the historic battles of Concord and Lexington, Concord Women’s Chorus presents a program of women composers writing for women’s voices. Featuring the texts of famous Concord (and New England) authors (including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lidian Jackson Emerson, Martha Lawrence Prescott, and more), the concert features Libby Larsen’s Concord Fragments, commissioned by the chorus in 2010; Melissa Dunphy’s Grown Wild, with text by Concord poet Melissa Apperson, commissioned 2020; Rosephanye Powell’s To Sit and Dream, with text by Langston Hughes; Tara Traxler’s Birds of Passage; and a new arrangement of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The Concord Hymn. The concert features voices, piano, oboe, clarinet, and violin.

Trinity Episcopal Church
81 Elm Street
Concord, MA

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