{"id":596,"date":"2025-03-01T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:00:30","slug":"two-world-premieres-and-a-winning-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/two-world-premieres-and-a-winning-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Two World Premieres and a Winning Score"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, March 16: Mercy On Ourselves (World Premiere)<\/h4>\n

Edvard Munch, \u201cMystical Shore,\u201d 1897.<\/em><\/p>\n

Emmanuel Music (Ryan Turner, Artistic Director), a \u201cliving laboratory for the music of J. S. Bach,\u201d performs the World Premiere of Mercy On Ourselves<\/em> on Sunday, March 16 at 10:00am ET at Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA and on livestream.<\/p>\n

This motet for SATB choir was commissioned to pair with Bach\u2019s Cantata BWV 46 (\u201cSchauet doch und sehet\u201d). My work, which features an original text, offers a musical meditation on the climate change crisis that takes its cues from Bach\u2019s moving evocations of human sorrow and divine wrath. For more about this project, read my program note.<\/p>\n

Event Information<\/a>
\nFree livestream<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 6: Street Haunting (Voices of NEC)<\/h4>\n

Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning\u201d (1897).<\/em><\/p>\n

New England Conservatory Chamber Singers (Erica J. Washburn, Director) will perform Street Haunting<\/em>, a winning score of the “Voices of NEC” alumni choral composition competition, on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 7:30pm ET in Jordan Hall, Boston, MA and on livestream.<\/p>\n

The competition’s winners were selected by a panel consisting of James Burton, Boston Symphony Orchestra Choral Director and Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Anthony Trecek-King, Resident Conductor (chorus) with the Handel and Haydn Society; Anthony Maglione, composer and Director of Choral Studies at William Jewell College; and Erica J. Washburn, Director of Choral Activities at New England Conservatory.<\/p>\n

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Thursday, March 6: I Would Like (World Premiere)<\/h4>\n

Agnes Lawrence Pelton, “Room Decoration in Purple and Gray” (Detail), 1917.<\/em><\/p>\n

Arkansas State University Concert Choir (Ryan W. Sullivan, Director) will perform the World Premiere of I Would Like<\/em> for SATB choir at the ninth annual Music by Women Festival at the Mississippi University for Women on Thursday, March 6 at 3:00PM CT in Columbus, MS and on livestream.<\/p>\n

I Would Like<\/em> was commissioned by the Arkansas State University Concert Choir for inclusion on a program of choral works by women. Director Ryan W. Sullivan invited me to set a poem by Kathryn I. W. Sparks in which the speaker paints a vision of the contentment they wish to feel at the end of their life. I sought to honor the emotional nuances of this reflective text through moments of madrigal-esque word painting and the gentle tension of harmonic suspensions.<\/p>\n

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\nFree livestream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, March 16: Mercy On Ourselves (World Premiere) Edvard Munch, \u201cMystical Shore,\u201d 1897. Emmanuel Music (Ryan Turner, Artistic Director), a \u201cliving laboratory for the music of J. S. Bach,\u201d performs the World Premiere of Mercy On Ourselves on Sunday, March 16 at 10:00am ET at Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA and on livestream. This motet for … <\/p>\n

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