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🔆 The summer programs page lists 20 programs (last change 5/18/24).

May 21, 2023 (Sunday)

iCal 3:00 PM. Wings of Song [MA]: Blue Boat Home. Songs, texts, and images about the beauties of our planet and the challenges posed by climate change: both a celebration and a call to action. Music by Peter Mayer, Donna Dufresne, Leonard Bernstein, Pete Seeger, J. S. Bach, Neil Young, Paul Winter, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Jean Ritchie, and Elton John. Readings of texts by Thich Nhat Hanh, Carl Sagan, Joy Harjo, Robert Weston, Meghan Sterling, and others, together with projections of 44 images—of the Earth from space, of endangered and extinct species, of landscapes both polluted and pristine. Free admission, freewill offering accepted to be donated to a leading organization working to combat climate change. More details in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1szl7dfcr_Y For more information, email nymcooke@gmail.com. Shepherd Hill Regional High School, 68 Dudley-Oxford Road, Dudley MA 01585 (View flier) ⓘ

May 20, 2023 (Saturday)

iCal 7:30 PM. Wings of Song [CT]: Blue Boat Home. Songs, texts, and images about the beauties of our planet and the challenges posed by climate change: both a celebration and a call to action. Music by Peter Mayer, Donna Dufresne, Leonard Bernstein, Pete Seeger, J. S. Bach, Neil Young, Paul Winter, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Jean Ritchie, and Elton John. Readings of texts by Thich Nhat Hanh, Carl Sagan, Joy Harjo, Robert Weston, Meghan Sterling, and others, together with projections of 44 images—of the Earth from space, of endangered and extinct species, of landscapes both polluted and pristine. Free admission, freewill offering accepted to be donated to a leading organization working to combat climate change. More details in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1szl7dfcr_Y For more information, email nymcooke@gmail.com. First Congregational Church, 543 Route 169, Woodstock CT (View flier) ⓘ

May 13, 2023 (Saturday)

iCal 7:30 PM. Wings of Song [MA]: Blue Boat Home. Songs, texts, and images about the beauties of our planet and the challenges posed by climate change: both a celebration and a call to action. Music by Peter Mayer, Donna Dufresne, Leonard Bernstein, Pete Seeger, J. S. Bach, Neil Young, Paul Winter, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Jean Ritchie, and Elton John. Readings of texts by Thich Nhat Hanh, Carl Sagan, Joy Harjo, Robert Weston, Meghan Sterling, and others, together with projections of 44 images—of the Earth from space, of endangered and extinct species, of landscapes both polluted and pristine. Free admission, freewill offering accepted to be donated to a leading organization working to combat climate change. More details in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1szl7dfcr_Y For more information, email nymcooke@gmail.com. St Joachim Chapel, 16 Church St, Fiskdale (Sturbridge) MA (View flier) ⓘ

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Archived Online Events

  • Musica Sacra [MA]: In Music is Such Art: Choral Music set to texts of Shakespeare. Brush up your Shakespeare! From the time of his contemporary, Thomas Morley, to the present day, composers have turned to his expressive poetry to further explore his keen observations of the human condition. Modern composers such as Mäntyjärvi, Diemer, Komulainen, Harris, Helldén, Johanson, and Hamilton, as well as 19th century ones such as Macfarren, Pearsall and Amy Beach have all set his texts, be they poetry or songs or famous soliloquies from his plays. [5/11/2024] Cambridge MA ⓘ
  • Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra: Oliver Towne: Streaming Free May 1. The PVS Orchestra’s 30th annual Mary Stuart Rogers Education Concert was performed on April 11th for almost one thousand 3rd & 4th graders in Greenfield, MA. A video of the world premiere of Oliver Towne, a radio play-style composition from Andrés Martín and poet Roger Arvid Anderson, will be available to stream free on our YouTube channel beginning May 1st. [5/1/2024] Visit archive