Projects
Past Events
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Our benefit for Communities Without Borders supported by Mass Cultural Council and Newton Cultural Council featuring the Orchestra Without Borders in music by Hailstork, Fahim, de Martinez, and others
with Jonathan Fagan, Michael Rosen, and Hannah Shanefield
Boston Summer Singers concert from 2023 featuring all music by female composers from the Renaissance to the present day, with guest instrumentalists Grace Helmke, flute, and Lois Shapiro, piano. Selections included a new edition of “The Little Brown Bee” by Amy Beach and music by Maddalena Casulana and Reena Esmail.
The concert raised over $1,000 for the Women’s Lunch Place and was presented a second time at Lasell Village.
Our benefit for the Women’s Lunch Place from 2022 featuring Dave McLellan, guitar.
Our Orchestra Without Borders benefit for the Women’s Lunch Place from 2022, featuring music for strings including Fela Sowande’s magnificent African Suite. With Julie Haring and Jake Pietroniro, violin/viola duo
Our Orchestra Without Borders benefit for the Women’s Lunch Place from 2020, featuring six centuries of music for strings, including Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s dynamic Noveletten.
Produced in partnership with the Cambridge Community Center and the Church of the Covenant
Our second concert: Music from the Margins, presented virtually because of the pandemic. It featured the stirring Armenian Miniatures by V. Komitas, as well as works by William Grant Still and Adolphus Hailstork’s breathtaking Sonata da Chiesa.
Listen to the stream here