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Photo: Adriana Vald\u00e9z and Kitty Brazelton<\/em><\/p>\n

For generations, many of New York\u2019s most creative people have lived, worked and played in Greenwich Village: some briefly, like Robert Frost, others for their entire lives. Village Voices<\/strong> pairs their words with music, adding another dimension to the work of these innovative thinkers and experimenters.<\/p>\n

John Cage and Henry Cowell were pioneers of the musical avant-garde, experimenting with extended techniques, indeterminacy and electro-acoustic music. Their work was controversial and ground-breaking, redefining the art of music itself. In \u201cThe Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs,\u201d Cage has the pianist perform a percussion part on the closed piano lid \u2013 on other occasions he prepared the inside of the piano with a selection of objects which altered the sound, and in the celebrated 4\u201933\u201d<\/em> he has the pianist sit in total silence. Cowell\u2019s setting of \u201cThe Pasture\u201d is relatively conservative. The story goes that Cowell left the table at a dinner party to retire to the music room and compose the song at the piano. He then performed it with one of the other dinner guests! Cowell later became notorious for his arrest on charges of homosexual conduct and was championed by the Seegers.<\/p>\n

Ruth Crawford Seeger came to the Village to study theory and composition with Charles Seeger, whom she eventually married. The two were politically active, and the strong left-wing slant of the texts of Chinese immigrant H.T. Tsiang attracted her.<\/p>\n

Like Cowell, black composer Margaret Bonds also felt a special affinity for the poetry of Robert Frost, and perhaps even more for that of Edna St Vincent Millay. Though separated by the color line, the two women were alike in spirit, both feminists committed to using their art to promote social justice.<\/p>\n

Long-time East Village composer Kitty Brazelton felt a similar strong pull toward the work of black poet and playwright Angelina Weld Grimke, whose play Rachel was performed before an integrated audience in New York City\u2019s Neighborhood Playhouse in 1917. Djuna Barnes was an author, poet and illustrator who became a fixture of Greenwich Village Bohemian society; William Anderson\u2019s settings receive a new treatment for guitar orchestra. James Baldwin resided in the Village for most of his adult life; his themes of racial inequality and sexual identity resonated strongly with Mississippi-born Nehemiah Luckett. Poet Masha Kal\u00e9ko spent much of her life as a displaced person, fleeing first war-torn Poland for Germany, then Berlin from the Nazis before immigrating to New York. Both Anderson and Jonathan Dawe found her poetry evocative and frighteningly relevant to contemporary times.<\/p>\n

Willa Cather\u2019s writing recalled her youth in the Prairies, but she moved to No. 5 Bank Street as a young woman and spent 14 years there. Grammy Award-winning composer Libby Larsen loves to set prose \u2013 she was attracted to the musicality, strength and rhythm of Cather\u2019s \u201cMy Antonia.\u201c Tanya \u00a0Leon attended NYU for both her Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degrees.<\/p>\n

The Mannes Conservatory (New School) is a relative newcomer to Greenwich Village, but is already producing young talent like pianist-composer Gavin Cappon, who studied there with composer Steven Sacco.<\/p>\n

Sharon Harms is known for fearless performances and her passionate interpretations of new music, premiering the work of many of today\u2019s leading composers. Cuban-born singer Adriana Valdes brings brilliant technique, gorgeous tone and a rare musical intelligence to her singing. Both Cathy Kautsky and\u00a0Joan\u00a0Forsyth are lovers of words and music and the magic that transpires when the two are combined.<\/p>\n

Performers:<\/strong> Adriana Valdez, Sharon Harms \u2013 sopranos; Cathy Kautsky and Joan Forsyth, piano;
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Composers:<\/strong> Henry Cowell, John Cage, Margaret Bonds, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Tania Leon, William Anderson, Jonathan Dawe, Gavin Cappon, Christine Donkin<\/p>\n

Poets:<\/strong> Edna St Vincent Millay, Djuna Barnes, Robert Frost, James Baldwin, and Willer Cather<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Biographies<\/h4>\n

Soprano Sharon Harms<\/strong> has been praised by the New York Times<\/em> as \"superb,\u201d \"luscious-toned,\u201d \"extraordinarily precise and expressive,\u201d and \"dramatically committed and not averse to risk.\u201d She is known for fearless performances and passionate interpretations of works new and old for the recital, concert, and operatic stage. Sharon has premiered the music of some of today's leading composers and her repertoire spans periods and styles. A wide array of collaborations has seen her work in venues around the world, and she has appeared as a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, and as a guest artist of the American Academy in Rome.<\/p>\n

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Cuban-American soprano Adriana Vald\u00e9s<\/strong> was born in La Habana, Cuba, and began her musical studies as a violin player. At a young age she moved to Mexico where she attended the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. The Mexican press considered her \u201cyouthful and charming, possessing a vast register\u201d, \u201cA force of nature\u201d and \u201cVocally impeccable with an enviable comic vis.\u201d Adriana made her debut with Opera de Bellas Artes in M\u00e9xico in the role of Gretel in Humperdink\u2019s H\u00e4nsel und Gretel<\/em> under the baton of Niksa Bareza. She made her American debut in 2016 in the title role of Emilio Arrieta\u2019s Marina<\/em> with the Miami Lyric Opera.<\/p>\n

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For pioneering New York City composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Kitty Brazelton<\/strong>, music is personal, and the personal is universal. Her latest recording project \u200bCOVID Choirs\u200b will feature works including \u201cStorm\u201d, a retranslation of Psalm 104 written after Hurricane Sandy. Brazelton confronts encroaching invisibility with \u200bThe Planes of Your Location\u200b<\/em>, a live concert experience featuring Isaura String Quartet, premiered days before the global shutdown. The Essential Prayers Project\u200b redefines the tradition of prayer, making powerful words of hurt and hope accessible to all, religion aside. \u201cBrainy, boisterous and quintessentially downtown\u201d wrote Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The highly innovative and conjured world of composer Jonathan Dawe<\/strong> joins Baroque imagery with a modernist mix, cast with dynamic dramatic flair. Commended for his \"quirky, fascinating modernist variations on earlier styles\" (Time Out<\/em>), his music involves the recasting of energies and sounds of the past into decisively new expressions, through compositional workings based upon fractal geometry. The Flowering Arts<\/em>, a bold fractured transformation of Marc-Antoine Charpentier\u2019s Les arts florissants, commissioned by the Boston Symphony, was hailed as a \u201cpowerful premiere\u201d (Boston Globe<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Christine Donkin<\/strong> is an award-winning composer whose music appeals to a broad range of listeners and performers. Described by critics as \u201cstunning\u201d, \u201cpoignant\u201d, and \u201castonishingly beautiful\u201d, her work is promoted by several publishers and is performed all over the continent and beyond.<\/p>\n

Christine enjoys composing music for a wide range of performers. While her compositions have been programmed at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and the Moscow Conservatory, they are also frequently played at concerts featuring music students, community orchestras, and church choirs.<\/p>\n

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