Chamber Series: Celebrating Walt Whitman Through Song

Saturday, November 11, 2023 | 3 PM

Follen Church
755 Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington, MA 02420

Our beloved Chamber Series returns with Director Allison Voth. This concert, fittingly on Veteran’s Day, includes Walt Whitman poems related to war, and music that is both gripping and heartbreaking.

Drawing from a diverse set of composers, this concert features music by black and female composers, relatively unknown American composers, young cutting-edge contemporary composers, and well-known composers. Let's celebrate Walt Whitman through song!

Lilly Ahn, soprano
Felicity Salmon, soprano
Jennifer Webb, mezzo-soprano
Kartik Ayysola, tenor
Nathan Halbur, bass
Ryan Mewhorter, bass

Program:

• Ina Boyle The Last Invocation
• Helen Hopekirk Reconciliation 
• Ernst Bacon Grand is the seen 
• Charles Naginski Look down fair moon
• Ruth Schontal By the Roadside
• Glen Roven DUET: We too—how long we were fools 
• Daron Hagen The heart of the stranger: Specimen Case
• Nkeiru Okaye Twenty-Eight Bathers 
• Jeremy Gill Thus by blue Ontario’s shore 
• Kurt Weill Four Walt Whitman Songs
• Ralph Vaughn Williams The Last Invocation