CONTENTS
Jocelyn Hagen, Susanna Phillips & Mozart: Here I Am
Presented by True Concord in partnership with Tucson Desert Song Festival
True Concord Choir and Soloists, Orchestra, Tucson Girls Chorus, Marcela Molina director
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Jocelyn Hagen, Susanna Phillips & Mozart: Here I Am
Presented by True Concord in partnership with Tucson Desert Song Festival
True Concord Choir and Soloists, Orchestra, Tucson Girls Chorus, Marcela Molina director
Learn more here.
Hosted by composer Abbie Betinis, the Schubert Club‘s popular Courtroom Concert takes place in the Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul, MN. This series features accomplished musicians and composers from the Twin Cities and surrounding area, as well as occasional musical newcomers to the area.
Program:
love. songs
1. burn
2. your little voice
3. so quite new
4. i love you much (most beautiful darling)
5. i carry your heart with me
– Charles Eaton, baritone & Celeste Marie Johnson, piano –
Finding Refuge Together
– Kirsten Whitson, cello –
Shoua and the Northern Lights Dragon
– Chione Quintet –
Contralto Emily Marvosh takes you on an intriguing journey with a thoughtfully selected mix of old and new works. Featuring love. songs, a cycle by Jocelyn Hagen that illuminates some of the many aspects of love: desire, infatuation, physical love, parental love, and eternal love.
South Bend Chamber Singers concert featuring:
A Requiem by Jocelyn Hagen
with works by
Morten Lauridsen
and other composers
with special guests
Saint Mary’s College Belles Voix
This concert will feature the world premiere of Minnesota-based composed Jocelyn Hagen’s requiem, Ashes of Roses, in a new orchestration. Originally scored for SATB chorus, soprano, mezzo-soprano, and baritone soloists, soprano saxophone soloist, and large orchestra, Jocelyn is re-scoring the work for performance with accompaniment of organ and several instruments, making it more possible for small ensembles like the South Bend Chamber Singers to perform. The work gets its name from Elaine Goodale Eastman’s poem “Ashes of Roses,” which is incorporated into the traditional Latin text of the requiem mass as the 4th movement and is scored for 4-part women’s voices. The Saint Mary’s College Belles Voix will join the treble voices of the SBCS for this movement. Hagen also incorporates a text from I Corinthians in the Agnus Dei, sung by the baritone soloist.
For the other half of our program, we will perform American composer Morten Lauridsen’s cycle of choral pieces, Les Chansons des Roses. The SMC Belles Voix will also perform several pieces alone.
This concert sponsored in part by The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County’s ArtsEverywhere Initiative.
MARCH 9–26, 2023
MUSIC BY JOCELYN HAGEN
LIBRETTO BY KAO KALIA YANG
A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine.
Sung in English with English captions projected above the stage.
MARCH 9–26, 2023
MUSIC BY JOCELYN HAGEN
LIBRETTO BY KAO KALIA YANG
A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine.
Sung in English with English captions projected above the stage.
MARCH 9–26, 2023
MUSIC BY JOCELYN HAGEN
LIBRETTO BY KAO KALIA YANG
A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine.
Sung in English with English captions projected above the stage.
MARCH 9–26, 2023
MUSIC BY JOCELYN HAGEN
LIBRETTO BY KAO KALIA YANG
A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine.
Sung in English with English captions projected above the stage.
MARCH 9–26, 2023
MUSIC BY JOCELYN HAGEN
LIBRETTO BY KAO KALIA YANG
A father’s love, a family’s journey.
The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family, polishing their reality so that they might shine.
Sung in English with English captions projected above the stage.
