MARCH 19, 2007 - TRICINIUM AWARDS PRIZES FOR POETRY CONTEST
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.
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.
