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SUMMARY:We The People – Poetica Musica
DESCRIPTION:Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, the words of the Founding Fathers feel newly urgent. Gathering to hear American music\, in in a city that has always stood for pluralism and possibility and in a neighborhood that was described by poet Mascha Kaléko as “the melting pot in the melting pot” is itself an act of faith — in what the Republic has been\, and in what it still can be.\nIn “We the People\,” Poetica Musica draws on music from America’s first 25 decades – including works by Robert Beaser\, Aaron Copland\, William Bolcom\, Hall Johnson\, and others — to trace a thread of distinctly American expression across generations and styles.\nDubbed “Good Will Ambassadors” by the New York Times\, Poetica Musica is among the most widely traveled chamber ensembles working today. The group has performed across more than 60 nations – from Turkey and Azerbaijan to Peru\, Jamaica\, and Tajikistan – and was honored with the Ambassador’s Award for Cultural Diplomacy from the US Department of State. That record of musical ambassadorship lends particular weight to a program built around America’s 250th anniversary. \nThe concert marks the official opening of this year’s Village Trip\, an annual festival celebrating “the Village” – Greenwich Village and the East Village – and the communities which have long made this unique Manhattan neighborhood a place of artistic exchange. “A republic\, if you can keep it\,” Benjamin Franklin allegedly quipped at the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. This concert\, and the wider festival\, implicitly explore that prescient concern. \n\nBarry Crawford\, flute\nOren Fader\, guitar\nWilliam Anderson\, guitar\nMolly Morkoski\, piano\nEleanor Valkenburg\, soprano
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LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Music
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SUMMARY:Women's Work
DESCRIPTION:[Image: Scene in a Magdalen Laundry  |  Kitty Brazelton] \nThe Village Trip presents “Women’s Work\,” an evening of music and poetry that explores the tension between the external demands placed on women and the rich creative interior lives they have always sustained. Central to the program is a world première from Greenwich Village composer Kitty Brazelton. The program also draws on works by Liz Queler (The Edna Project)\, Missy Mazzoli\, Shoko Suzuki\, Ann Southam\, and Whitney George\, alongside texts by Eleanor Roosevelt\, Marcella Remund\, Edna St Vincent Millay and Anne Lovering Rounds.\nAmid the intimate surroundings of St John’s in the Village\, the festival presents an important new piece that gives voice to a dark and little-known episode of Greenwich Village history. Commissioned by The Village Trip\, Village resident and composer Kitty Brazelton has created a work for two singers and piano\, setting poetry by Marcella Remund. The subject is the Magdalen Society which\, in the early 19th century\, operated from rented rooms on Carmine Street\, where it confined women deemed “fallen” and put them to work in laundry servitude under the guise of moral rehabilitation. The Society eventually moved Uptown\, but its American origins were here\, a few blocks from where our concert takes place. Women were sent away for being unmarried and pregnant\, for being deemed too independent\, for surviving sexual violence — while the perpetrators walked free. Brazelton’s powerful work brings that silenced history into the concert hall. \nThe program also draws on works by Liz Queler (The Edna Project)\, Missy Mazzoli (named Musical America’s Composer of the Year in 2022)\, Shoko Suzuki\, Ann Southam\, and Whitney George\, with literary texts by Eleanor Roosevelt\, Anne Lovering Rounds\, and Edna St Vincent Millay. \n“Women’s Work” is not a historical retrospective. It is a living argument — made in music and words — that women’s creative voices have always been present\, always vital\, and have never needed permission to matter. \n\nSharon Harms\, soprano\nCurtlyn Ifill\, soprano\nJoan Forsyth\, piano\nAdam Tendler\, piano\nAnne Lovering Rounds\, words and piano
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/womens-work/
LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Music
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SUMMARY:Village Voices
DESCRIPTION:[Image: Kile Smith\, Ella Milch-Sheriff\, Akemi Naito\, Scott Wheeler] \nEach year\, The Village Trip brings together composers with deep ties to Greenwich Village and the East Village for an evening celebrating Village Voices. This year’s program draws on an extraordinary range of voices — and histories —  featuring premieres by Scott Wheeler\, and Ella Milch-Sheriff\, as well as new settings of Herman Melville by Akemi Naito and Kile Smith.\n“Village Voices” opens with the world premiere of Blue Ridge\, a four-movement work for saxophone and piano by Scott Wheeler\, whose operas have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and Washington National Opera\, and his music performed by Renée Fleming\, Gil Shaham\, and Kent Nagano. The performance features the composer at the piano alongside saxophonist Timothy Ruedeman\, praised for his “extreme virtuosity” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and one of the leading voices on his instrument. \nAkemi Naito and Kile Smith bring new settings of Herman Melville — a fitting Village connection\, for Melville’s paternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort\, a hero of the Continental Army after whom Gansevoort Street is named. Naito\, born in Tokyo and based in New York\, describes her composing as “a profoundly poetic activity.” Smith’s music has received three Grammy nominations and has been praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “sublimely … ecstatically beautiful.” \nElla Milch-Sheriff\, winner of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Prize and one of the country’s most performed composers\, contributes new settings for voice\, cello and piano of Mascha Kaléko\, a German-Jewish poet who fled Berlin and lived in exile at 1 Minetta Street from 1942 to 1959. Kaléko wrote a poem about that address\, a love letter to Greenwich Village. Her verse is marked by wit\, yearning\, and a persistent sense of not-quite-belonging — themes that feel as present as ever. \nAlso on the program: New music by Pulitzer Prize-winner and American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medalist Yehudi Wyner. \n\nOren Fader\, guitar\nWilliam Anderson\, mandolin\nEmily John\, harp\nJoan Forsyth\, piano\nSharon Harms\, soprano\nCurtlyn Ifill\, soprano\nTim Ruedeman\, sax\nScott Wheeler\, piano
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/village-voices-2026/
LOCATION:St John’s in the Village\, 218 W 11th St\, New York\, NY\, New York\, 10014\, United States
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