Suffrage Centennial, Women’s Rights, and Voting Rights Events
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Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with a whole year of music by women!
ReSOUND in the CONVENT
Saturday, April 4, 2020 – 7pm – Eliot Church of Newton
Sunday, April 5, 2020 – 5pm – First Parish Cambridge
ReSound in the Convent is our 6th edition as moving constellations of singers chant and sing polyphony surrounding you with lush harmonies and soaring melodies.
With the brilliant accompaniment of Catherine Liddell on theorbo and baroque guitar, together with and a string trio, we revisit the unique and stunning repertoire by northern Italian nuns in the early baroque period. Women whose names you may remember from our earliest seasons, like Isabella Leonarda, Raffaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani will be well represented, as well as our dear friend Anonymous. We’ll also reprise two pieces written for this program in 2019, one by Patricia Van Ness and the other by Suzanne Sheppard. And of course the standard bearer of women composers, Hildegard von Bingen will do what she does best which is surround the program and YOU with her extraordinary chant. With Catherine Liddell, theorbo, and string trio.
With special guests Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, violins, Laura Jeppesen, gamba and Catherine Liddell, theorbo.
Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with a whole year of music by women!
ReSOUND in the CONVENT
Saturday, April 4, 2020 – 7pm – Eliot Church of Newton
Sunday, April 5, 2020 – 5pm – First Parish Cambridge
ReSound in the Convent is our 6th edition as moving constellations of singers chant and sing polyphony surrounding you with lush harmonies and soaring melodies.
With the brilliant accompaniment of Catherine Liddell on theorbo and baroque guitar, together with and a string trio, we revisit the unique and stunning repertoire by northern Italian nuns in the early baroque period. Women whose names you may remember from our earliest seasons, like Isabella Leonarda, Raffaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani will be well represented, as well as our dear friend Anonymous. We’ll also reprise two pieces written for this program in 2019, one by Patricia Van Ness and the other by Suzanne Sheppard. And of course the standard bearer of women composers, Hildegard von Bingen will do what she does best which is surround the program and YOU with her extraordinary chant. With Catherine Liddell, theorbo, and string trio.
With special guests Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, violins, Laura Jeppesen, gamba and Catherine Liddell, theorbo.
In celebration of the centennial passage of the 19th amendment, the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail is presenting the story of local leaders and significant events in the crusade to gain the right to vote at public libraries across Massachusetts. Join us to learn about the many organizations who worked to gain women the right to vote as well as the 1919 arrest of suffragists and leaders such as Maud Wood Park, Mary Kenney O’Sullivan, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, and Lucy Stone.
Check out your local library listings for details.
Southbridge February 20 6:30 PM
Jamaica Plain Library March 7 10:00 AM
Spencer Library March 12 6:30 PM
Harwich Library March 14 10:30 AM
Brewster Library March 14 2:00 PM
Falmouth Library March 21 3:00 PM
Quincy Library March 23 7:00 PM
Wellesley Library March 25 1:00 PM
Gloucester Library March 28 2:00 PM
North Attleborough April 1 6:30 PM
Hingham April 6 2:00 PM
Westwood May 13 7:00 PM
Pembroke May 21 7:00 PM
Longmeadow June 9 6:30 PM
Norfolk June 30 6:30 PM
Lunenberg July 1 6:30 PM
Beverly July 16 7:00 PM
Monday, April 6, 2020 – 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Registration is requested
Members $20 and Non-members $30
Blazing Banners
in partnership with Poets’ Theatre
Join us for a musical and narrative journey of the fight for voting rights for women. This foray into history shares the stories of the suffragists from the early twentieth-century and leads up to the “glass ceilings” of our current moment. The Poets’ Theatre brings the journey of “voting rights for women” to vivid life in song, story and personal narratives featuring acclaimed Boston performers directed by Nora Hussey.
This event is part of “(Anti) Suffrage,” a series of programming commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment. The amendment stated that the right of citizens to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” There was, however, no amendment to address or eliminate the pervasive racism and misogyny that permeated politics and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Join us as we probe the complexities of the struggle to secure and protect voting rights for women and people of color in the past and today.
Most programs held in the Bayard Henry Long Room on the Athenaeum’s first floor are amplified and assistive listening devices are available for patron use.
To request ASL interpretation services for any of the Athenaeum’s programs, please contact Hannah Weisman at 617-720-7617 or weisman@bostonathenaeum.org.
Sojourner’s Song
Saturday
May 9, 2020
4:00 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church
81 Elm Street, Concord, MA
Sojourner’s Song, composed by Mari Esabel Valverde, sits at the heart of a distinctive program dedicated to works written by European and American women composers.
All seats are general admission (unreserved). Online ticket orders may be made up to 5:00 pm the day before the concert, and tickets are also available at the door (cash, check or credit card). Ticket prices are $25 adults, $20 seniors/students, and $5 for children 12 and under.
A musical about how women got their rights told by the women who were there. “I laughed, I sang!”
Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with a whole year of music by women!
The Dinner Party-illuminated by the spectacular art of Fran Forman!
Saturday, May 16, 2020 – 7pm – Eliot Church of Newton
Sunday, May 17, 2020 – 5pm – St. Paul’s Brookline
Immerse yourself in visual and musical beauty: CC and friends Na’ama Lion, flute, Nancy Hurrell, harp, Catherine Liddell and Charles Iner, theorbos and baroque guitars, and Mike Williams, percussion, gather around a table to sing “after dinner” entertainment part-songs by Barbara Strozzi, Vittoria Aleotti, Rebecca Clarke, and Fanny Mendelssohn, all illuminated by the stunning images of visual artist Fran Forman franforman.com !
Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with a whole year of music by women!
The Dinner Party-illuminated by the spectacular art of Fran Forman!
Saturday, May 16, 2020 – 7pm – Eliot Church of Newton
Sunday, May 17, 2020 – 5pm – St. Paul’s Brookline
Immerse yourself in visual and musical beauty: CC and friends Na’ama Lion, flute, Nancy Hurrell, harp, Catherine Liddell and Charles Iner, theorbos and baroque guitars, and Mike Williams, percussion, gather around a table to sing “after dinner” entertainment part-songs by Barbara Strozzi, Vittoria Aleotti, Rebecca Clarke, and Fanny Mendelssohn, all illuminated by the stunning images of visual artist Fran Forman franforman.com !
Dr Kathy Bullock of Kentucky will inspire/educate us about the Afro-American voting experience in song.
