The Month of Moderns 2024
... is one month away!
Let’s talk…
about us…
in song.

The things we live with, that are tough to discuss.
Heard, in the hopeful paradigm of singing together.
Listening, in the joyful event of being together.
Storytelling, through the lens of some brilliant composers.

Mountains and Lakes, Aging and Alzheimer’s,
Gun Violence, Oil Spills, the Destinies of Souls.

Gabriel Jackson, Stacy Garrop, Kile Smith, Ayanna Woods,
Robert Maggio, Joseph C. Phillips, Santa Ratniece.

All at our home, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.
The Month of Moderns 1:
Not so much Watching as Waiting 

Stacy Garrop's In a House Besieged
Robert Maggio's The Woman Where We Are Living
Gabriel Jackson's According to Seneca
 
   with Scott Dettra, organ and Elizabeth Steiner, harp 

Saturday, June 15 @ 5pm
The clinical notes of Dr. Alzheimer in relief against the curiously beautiful world of his first patient. The insights of Lydia Davis exploring, through metaphor, a disintegrating sense of ‘being’ as the years pass.
The Month of Moderns 2:
Prairie in our Backyard

Works of Gabriel Jackson, Santa Ratniece, Kile Smith,
Ayanna Woods, Joseph C. Phillips, and Ēriks Ešenvalds.

Thursday, June 27 @ 7pm
(start your weekend early!)
Six composers offer personal world views from widely varying backgrounds – Riga, Chicago, London, Brooklyn, Philadelphia – on topics ranging from the gulf where oil is spilled, to the prairie that laments the farewells of plants, to the mountains where life is pondered, to the city full of guns.
…and he shall let the goat go into the Wilderness.

Be there.
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