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Amy Beach, Claire Brook, Colby College, Florence Price, Libby Larsen, Music in the Museum, Rosephanye Powell, Women Composers
Wednesday, March 30th at noon
Colby College – Music in the Museum Series
Trailblazers: Arts Songs by American Women Composers
Colby College Museum of Art
5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville, ME
A Celebration of American women composers, the recital will highlight works of American composers Amy Beach, Florence Price, Claire Brook, Libby Larsen & Rosephanye Powell.
With Joëlle Morris, Mezzo-soprano, and Christina Spurling, Piano.
All performances begin at noon in the Paul J. Schupf wing for the works of Alex Katz in the Colby Museum of Art. Events in the museum are open to the public, seating is limited and masks must be worn.
Made in Maine: Reflections in Song features carefully chosen songs from the Resinosa Ensemble commissioned premieres: selections from Daniel Sonenberg’s six song cycle Beauty is Not Enough, with text by Edna St. Vincent Millay; selections from John Newell’s Night Songs with poems by Sara Teasdale; the final movement of Nancy Gunn’s Spiresongs, poems by Elizabeth Spires; and selections from Richard Nelson’s A Forest of Glass, a Kaleidoscope, a Dream, featuring poems by Ellen Taylor
Choirs at Colby and guest soloists 
Colby College Collegium offers a concert of ‘firsts.’ Whether they be first
standards at the New York Campaign Celebration at Lincoln Center, NY. 
Joëlle Morris, Mezzo Soprano 