VOCALORE: HOMEGROWN MUSIC, POETRY AND FOOD
Tricinium is
pleased to announce VOCALORE: Homegrown Music, Poetry and Food. With
concerts on April 17th and 18th, our spring event features the
premieres of two new works by 2009 New Hampshire Artist Fellow,
composer Lawrence Siegel, well-known New Hampshire performers including
soprano Peggo Horstmann Hodes, violinist Sarah Atwood, pianists Robert
Merfeld and Calvin Herst, and a special appearance by 2009 New
Hampshire Artist Fellow, poet Jennifer Militello. A reception following
the concert will feature fresh (LOCALVORE) food and drink, much of it
graciously donated by regional partners including the Brattleboro Food
Coop, Poocham Hill Winery, the Inn at East Hill Farm and Cabot
Creamery, with catering provided by First Course.
There are two performances: Saturday, April 17th, 7:30 p.m. at Apple
Hill Center for Chamber Music, Sullivan, NH, and Sunday, April 18th, 4
p.m. at Concord Community Music School, Concord, NH. Admission is free!
(donation is welcome).
In addition to bringing our community together around local arts and
local food, this concert constitutes Siegel's "report to the NH
Community" occasioned by his receipt of a 2009 Fellowship from the New
Hampshire State Council on the Arts. In addition to his creation of two
new pieces which will premiere at the concerts, there will be a poetry
reading by Jennifer Militello, herself a 2009 Fellow. The performers
are well known and admired throughout New England and beyond:
- Peggo Hodes has a wide-ranging career with art song, cabaret, and leading vocal workshops and is married to NH second district Congressman Paul Hodes.
- Robert Merfeld has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and South America including at festivals such as Aspen, Ravinia, Caramoor, and Marlboro.
- Calvin Hirst is director of education and community partnerships at the Concord Community Music School, and frequently performs with Peggo Hodes
- Sarah Atwood, 18 years old, placed first in New Hampshire's All State Music Festival as a freshman, won first in division in New England Music Festival, was winner of the Windham Orchestra Concerto Competition, and winner in the Musical Club of Hartford Competition
- Jennifer Militello is the author of Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Prize, and of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail (Finishing Line Press, 2006), and is currently a professor at River Valley Community College in Claremont, New Hampshire.
Fresh local food, and food services will be provided by:
- Brattleboro Food Coop, a center of local food and community culture in Brattleboro, VT and throughout the region.
- Poocham Hill Winery, a cottage winery in the hills of Westmoreland, NH.
- The Inn at East Hill Farm, Troy, NH, farm family vacation resort, providing an authentic farm experience.
- Cabot Creamery, owned by dairy farm families since 1919, proudly producing the "World's Best Cheddar."
- The True Nut Company, NH maple made roasted almonds.
- First Course, transforming lives through culinary training.
MARCH, 2010 - NHCF GRANT TO BEGIN "FELLOW CITIZENS" PROJECT
Tricinium has been awarded a two year grant from the Badger Monadnock
Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
The grant has been awarded for the development of Tricinium's new
Fellow Citizens Project. Fellow Citizens will be a series of works
whose texts will come from interviews with people from all walks of
life who are fully engaged in civic life. The stories will focus on
anecdotes which take the audience on a journey from youth to adulthood,
and explore a relationship between childhood experiences and a mature
sense of civic engagement. Along the way, dilemmas of the human
experience as regards civics and civility will emerge: for example,
tensions between individual attainment and community service, or the
complex enticements of power. Ultimately the stories will resolve into
celebration of the common good, a story one cannot tell, or hear, too
often!
The Fellow Citizens Project follows upon a twenty year record of highly
acclaimed community projects led by Lawrence Siegel, Artistic Director
of Tricinium. Known as Verbatim Projects, they have resulted in
innovative, original works of music theater by and about communities
around New Hampshire - including many Monadnock Region towns, such as
Peterborough, Harrisville, Nelson, and Westmoreland - and across the
country. Siegel's recent oratorio, Kaddish, featured testimony of
survivors of the Holocaust, employing a writing process similar to that
which will be used in Fellow Citizens.
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has been improving the quality
of life in New Hampshire communities since 1962. It builds and manages
a collection of charitable funds, totaling nearly $490 million, created
by individuals, families, and corporations. The Foundation is
non-partisan, frequently playing the role of convener and catalyst on a
broad spectrum of issues that affect New Hampshire. Based in Concord,
the Foundation roots itself in communities across the state through
seven regions including Lakes, Manchester, Monadnock, Nashua, North
Country, Piscataqua and Upper Valley. For more information about the
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, visit www.nhcf.org, or call
603-225-6641.
For more information about Tricinium browse this site, and the check back
for updates on the Fellow Citizens Project,
or call 603-355-8353.
