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 2020 COLLABORATIVE WORKS FESTIVAL:

THE WOMEN

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 ABOUT

The 2020 Collaborative Works Festival, The Women, commemorated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which granted women the right to vote.

Featuring exclusively the works of women composers, the festival was held over four consecutive weekends in October 2020.

The festival spotlit music spanning over four and a half centuries, shedding light on the long history of musical pioneers who have been overlooked due to centuries of sexism. A wide range of composers were explored, from the first woman to have a book of her music published, Maddalena Casulana, to women composers of the Parisian Belle époque like Pauline Viardot, to 20th century composers such as Margaret Bonds and Florence Price, as well as some of the women composers of today, such as Stacy Garrop and Errollyn Wallen.

 

 

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM

Those who doubt the power of music as a panacea in challenging times would have been convinced here…easily demonstrated why CAIC has emerged as one of the classiest vocal performance options in the city.

Opera News

 

 

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PROGRAM I:

WOMEN OF THE BAROQue

The Festival’s first concert, Women of the Baroque, featured the works of the many overlooked women composers of the late Renaissance and Baroque period, including French composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Italian composer Maddalena Casaluna, who was the first woman in western music history to have an entire book of her musical compositions published.

ARTISTS

Amanda Majeski, soprano | Nicholas Phan, tenor | Anthony Reed, bass | Martin Davids & Ann Duggan, violins | Craig Trompeter, viola da gamba | Brandon J. Acker, lutes | Mark Shuldiner, harpsichord & organ

PROGRAM

MADDALENA CASULANA: Vagh’amorosi augelli

FRANCESCA CACCINI: O vive rose | Io mi distruggo | Chi desia di saper che cosa è Amore

ELISABETH JACQUET DE LA GUERRE: Nos veoux…Dormés, dormés from Le sommeil d’Ulisse

ANTONIA BEMBO: Passan veloci l’hore

BARBARA STROZZI: Un amante doglioso

ANTONIA BEMBO: Ha que l’absence

JULIE PINEL: Rossignol vous chantez

BARBARA STROZZI: Hor che Apollo, op. 8, no. 3

BARBARA STROZZI: Che si può fare, Op. 8, no. 6

 

 

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PROGRAM II:

LES PARISIENNES

The Festival's second concert, Les Parisiennes, featured the works of the women composers trailblazing during the years of the Parisian Belle époque: songs which broke barriers, pushing past the domestic confines of Paris' salons to the city's grand, public concert halls.

ARTISTS

Janai Brugger, soprano | Amanda Lynn Bottoms, mezzo-soprano | Nicholas Phan, tenor | Myra Huang, piano

PROGRAM

CÉCILE CHAMINADE: Ma première lettre

NADIA BOULANGER: selected songs

GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE: Six chansons françaises

PAULINE VIARDOT: selected songs

LILI BOULANGER: Clairières dans le ciel

 

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PROGRAM III:

MODERN WOMEN

The Festival’s closing concert, Modern Women, showcased the work of some of today’s women composers, as well as the songs of American women composers of the 20th century.

ARTISTS

Amanda Lynn Bottoms, mezzo-soprano | Nicholas Phan, tenor | Chris Kenney, baritone | Shannon McGinnis, piano

PROGRAM

MARGARET BONDS: Three Dream Portraits

IVA BITTOVÁ: Nezabudka (Midwestern Premiere)

RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER: Home Thoughts

ERROLLYN WALLEN: Roundel (Midwestern Premiere)

SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER: How Graceful Things Are Falling Apart

STACY GARROP: In Eleanor’s Words

FLORENCE PRICE: Songs to a Dark Virgin