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MARCH 19, 2007 - TRICINIUM AWARDS PRIZES FOR POETRY CONTEST

Poetry about community Music from poetry Celebrating a man And a centennial Tricinium Poetry Contest:
Celebration of a Man and a Centennial

Tricinium, Ltd., a Keene, New Hampshire organization devoted to nurturing civic engagement through the arts, is pleased to announce the winners for the 2007 Tricinium Poetry Contest, honoring civic leader, the late David F. Putnam, and in celebration of The MacDowell Colony's Centennial.

First prize is awarded to Atar Hadari of the United Kingdom for "Quorum". Second place is awarded to Jeanne Mahon of Mercer, Pennsylvania for "Who Was Playing the Piano at My Party Last Night?" Third place is awarded to "Choosing a Seat" by Marian Kaplun Shapiro of Lexington, MA. All winners will be awarded a cash prize and will have their poem set to music by composer Lawrence Siegel. The premiere performance will take place in October of 2007 and will feature Peggo Horstmann Hodes, soprano.

Honorable Mention poetry includes "Net" by James Penha of Jakarta, Indonesia, "This Root. This Stone" by Jackson Daviss, of Walpole, NH, and "FEMA Trailers, Moonlit Night" by Alison Pelegrin of Mandeville, LA.

Judging was done in collaboration between Tricinium Artistic Director, composer Lawrence Siegel, and New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Patricia Fargnoli.

OCTOBER 8, 2005 - LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE

All Go Forward and Back!
Larry Siegel's Verbatim Projects
A Retrospective, 1990 - 2005

The premiere live concert performance of "All Go Forward and Back!" was a unique and exciting experience. The audience enjoyed traditional music with folk music roots and witnessed this grand reunion of our past Verbatim participants and CD release party, featuring Brian Barnes, Lise Brown, David Cantieni, Patti Casey, Jeremiah McLane, Pete Sutherland, Larry Siegel and others.

cd cover - all go forward and back - larry siegel's verbatim projects: a retrospective, 1990 - 2005

Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Town House, Peterborough, NH
Contact: info@tricinium.com
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT
ALL GO FORWARD AND BACK!
LARRY SIEGEL'S VERBATIM PROJECTS
A RETROSPECTIVE, 1990 - 2005


On October 8th, 2005, at the Town House in Peterborough, New Hampshire, at 7:30 p.m., a group of celebrated musicians from around the country took the stage to present the premiere live concert performance of "All Go Forward and Back!" Some of you may know this phrase as a call at contra dances. But it is also the title of a new compact disc, a retrospective of fifteen years of Verbatim Projects: a residency program for communities and organizations in which original works of music theater are created about the group's own lives and experiences.

Composer and Tricinium Artistic Director Larry Siegel has led more than twenty-five of these projects over the past fifteen years: throughout the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire, around New England, and across America.

This journey began in 1990, when The Village Store Verbatim was written by Larry Siegel and Valeria Vasilevski and performed at the Claremont Opera House and - memorably - in Mike's Auto Repair in Westmoreland, NH. In the years that followed, Village Store Verbatim was filmed by New Hampshire Public Television, and produced in the University of New Hampshire's Opera Workshop.

Larry, in the meanwhile, evolved the Verbatim Project: a residency program for communities and organizations in which original works of music theater are created about the group's own lives and experiences. Peterborough, Harrisville, Nelson, towns around the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire, New England, across the country have experienced the magic of these unique events.

The recording, and the concert, feature selections of the funny and thoughtful songs from many past Verbatim Projects. This wonderful group of singers and instrumentalists have lent their skills to showcasing the work of the hundreds of participants who created the work with Larry's guidance.

The evening opened with a gathering of the clans: a sing-off featuring past participants in projects reprising songs from their shows. Then the band will took the stage and performed music from the recording. The flavor was eclectic, elegiac and wistful, funny and zany, in the spirit of an old variety show.

CONCERT BOOKINGS

All Go Forward and Back!
Concert Bookings Available

Bring the "All Go Forward and Back!" concert to your town and event! These are great musicians, well-known to audiences of traditional music around the world: Pete Sutherland, Patti Casey, Brian Barnes, and Stuart Comstock-Gay sing most of the vocals. The players - on fiddle, banjo, guitars, accordion, saxophone, piano and more - along with Pete Sutherland, Brian Barnes, and Larry Siegel himself, include Jeremiah McLane, Lise Brown, David Cantieni, and others.

National Bookings are available. Go to our contact page for concert bookings and Schedule a live concert of All Go Forward and Back! at a locaton of your choice.

Schedule: Request concert dates now
Contact: info@tricinium.com
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OCTOBER 8, 2005 - CD RELEASE

All Go Forward and Back! CD Ships

What's it like for the people who live in small-town America at the beginning of the twenty-first century? On this retrospective recording, you'll hear funny stories, sad stories, and visions of a life that might have been, and that might yet be, beautifully sung and played in a wide range of styles, by some of today's best traditional performers.
cd - all go forward and back - larry siegel's verbatim projects: a retrospective, 1990 - 2005 Buy CD Now
...or buy from the following retail establishments: Toadstool Bookshops in Peterborough and Keene.
Contact: info@tricinium.com
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CD TRACK LIST - CLICK LINK TO PLAY MUSIC CLIP

1. Hills of Nelson
2. Connections
3. Boccia's Storey / Sixty Years
4. Town Meeting / Cocktails and Dreams / Nothing to Do in this Town / Walmart / Let Bygones Be Bygones
5. I'll Fly Away / All Day Meeting / Old Mountain Woman
6. Kristen and Terry's Waltz / Police Log
7. Goldman's
8. Wilmot Flat / Milkweed / Milt Haley
9. There Was a Time
10. The Little I Earn
11. Father and Daughter
12. Sounds of the Mill
13. That's How It Is In Our Small Town
14. Steamer Jig / Felicitous Destinies / Liberation
15. In Those Days / All Go Forward and Back
16. Kristen and Terry's (reprise)

Produced by Pete Sutherland.

"It is often said that collaborations yield results which are greater than the sum of their parts. In the many collaborative projects of which I have been part, much of the magic has had something to do with this phenomenon. But at the same time - and never more than with this recording - I have been graced with some REALLY talented work partners."
Larry Siegel