This is an all weekend ticket to the 2022 Living Music Summit – purchasing this ticket grants you access to all events during the festival weekend!
June 3, 2022
8pm - Opening Concert:Literary Elements
Description: Enjoy a night of new music related to literature!
Location: The Center for the Arts at the Armory - 191 Highland Ave, Somerville
Livestream also available.
Tickets: $10 General Admission, $7 Student with ID
10pm - After Concert Meetup
Description: Join composers and performers after the concert for a chat! Non-alcoholic options are available, and each person pays for their own food and drink.
Location: Highland Kitchen - 150 Highland Ave, Somerville
June 4, 2022
10am - Group Hike
Description: Enjoy the great outdoors on a relaxing hike around Mt. Auburn.
Location: Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, MA (meeting at the Mt. Auburn St. entrance)
1:30pm - Lunch/Happy Hour
Description: Have some lunch and beverages with BNMI staff and fellow composers! Non-alcoholic options are available, and each person pays for their own food and drink.
Location: Dorchester Brewing Company - 1250 Massachusetts Ave, Boston
4:00pm - Workshop: Recorder Composition Readings with Emily O'Brien
Description: Emily O’Brien will read and critique submitted works for recorder. To submit a piece for reading go to bostonnewmusic.org/submit after May 14, 2022.
Location: The Record Co - 960 Massachusetts Ave, Boston
Via Zoom
8:00pm - Featured Concert: The Music of Speech
Description: BNMI teams up with the Cambridge Chamber Singers (CCS) for a rare concert event! All of BNMI’s works include spoken word, and CCS will perform works from a wide variety of time periods and styles for chorus and instruments. The night will also include the world premieres of two brand new works. Andrew Davis’ On the Nature of Things for chorus and Pierrot Ensemble plus percussion was commissioned by CCS and BNMI and Ania Vu’s Strange Birds for Pierrot Ensemble plus percussion and soprano was commissioned by BNMI.
Location: University Lutheran - 66 Winthrop St, Cambridge
Tickets: $25 General Admission, $20 Student
June 5, 2022
9:30am - Coffee Meetup
Description: Get your morning caffeine on with BNMI staff and fellow composers.
Location: Diesel Cafe - 257 Elm St, Somerville, MA 02144
11am - Workshop: Writing for Marimba with Matt Sharrock
Description: Learn about writing for marimba from a master player! Matt will also be reading several pieces and giving feedback. To have your piece read, submit at bostonnewmusic.org/submit
Location: Via Zoom
1:30pm - Freedom Trail & Pizza Lunch
Description: Walk the Freedom Trail and see Boston’s most famous landmarks with BNMI staff and fellow composers. We will get some pizza lunch on the way (provided).
Location: Boston Common Visitor Information Center 139 Tremont Street Boston
7:00pm - Closing Concert: The Music of Speech
Location: Pilgrim Congregational Church - 55 Coolidge Avenue Lexington
Join us for the opening concert of the 2022 Living Music Summit and enjoy a night of new music related to literature!
Program:
Christopher Buchenholz - Liebeslied Trevor Weston - Water Songs, "Endtown" and "Thanks" Nathan Courtright - The closer you come to Charles Mason - Senderos Que se Bifurcan Patrick Andrew Thompson - Moments Sweep Past: three poems of Tracy K. Smith Madeline Barrett* - The Flowers That Close at Night
*winner of our 7th Annual Young Composers' Competition
Presented by the Boston New Music Initiative core ensemble conducted by John Masko
This concert is made possible by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council.
RSVP for a group hike!
Enjoy the great outdoors on a relaxing hike at Mt. Auburn.
Have some lunch and beverages with BNMI staff and fellow composers! Non-alcoholic options are available, and each person pays for their own food and drink.
Emily O’Brien will read and critique submitted works for recorder. To submit a piece for reading go to bostonnewmusic.org/submit after May 14, 2022.
This is both an in-person and remote event, a zoom link will be available.
The Boston New Music Initiative and the Cambridge Chamber Singers are thrilled to present a joint concert entitled Music of Speech. BNMI performs works by living composers that use the spoken word in various ways, running the gamut from pre-recorded speech to collective speech. The highlight will be the world premiere of Strange Birds by Ania Vu, winner of BNMI’s 9th Annual Commissioning Competition. Performing together, CCS and BNMI offer a diverse set of choral works, including accompanied Monteverdi madrigals, Rheinberger’s romantic Die Nacht, Larsen’s scat Dance Set, and Jobim’s jazzy Double Rainbow. The featured work - a 2020 joint commission by the two ensembles - is On the Nature of Things, by competition winner Andrew Davis.
Your ticket purchase grants you access to both the live performance and the livestream.
Andrew Davis* - On the Nature of Things Ania Vu° - Strange Birds Josef Rheinberger - Die Nacht Antônio Carlos Jobim - Double Rainbow Claudio Monteverdi - Hor che'l ciel Libby Larsen - Dance Set Emerson Voss^ - whereas Gunter Gaupp^ - those who watch Derek Douglas Carter§ - a bite of chocolate milk Kian Ravaei§ - Writing a Book
*winner of our 7th Annual Commissioning Competition °winner of our 9th Annual Commissioning Competition ^presented on June 4 only §presented on June 5 only
Presented by the Boston New Music Initiative core ensemble conducted by John Masko and the Cambridge Chamber Singers conducted by Raymond Fahrner
These concerts were sponsored in part by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Get your morning caffeine on with BNMI staff and fellow composers.
Learn about writing for marimba from a master player! Matt will also be reading several pieces and giving feedback. To have your piece read, submit at bostonnewmusic.org/submit
Walk the Freedom Trail and see Boston’s most famous landmarks with BNMI staff and fellow composers. We will get some pizza lunch on the way (provided).
©#### The Boston New Music Initiative, Inc. P.O. Box 454, Burlington, MA 01803
