Soprano and Lancaster native AddieRose Forstman nee Brown and composer and pianist Maria Thompson Corley will present "Call Out Your Name" on Friday, April 1, at 7 p.m. at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 301 St. Thomas Road, Lancaster.
The seed and core of the program are the works of American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, as set by American composers H. Leslie Adams, Victoria Bond, and Libby Larsen. These works begin an arc that leads from the recognition of oneself in nature, through the simultaneous triumph and pain of realizing that one's growth means losing touch with past versions of oneself and past comforts, to the depression, frustration, or anger at constantly having to release the old and assumed, and the fight for the new self to be acknowledged.
The program also includes two world premiere songs by Corley, which are settings of poetry by Susanna Musser and Forstman, along with works by Gilda Lyons, Leonard Bernstein, Puccini, Tom Lehrer, Fats Waller, Nina Simone and Kurt Weill.
There is a suggested ticket fee, payable at the door. Per St. Thomas' current protocols, masks are optional, but suggested, for audience members.
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