Performers:

Lakeshore Rush:

Erin Kendall Murphy, flute
Laura McLaughlin, clarinet   
Pascal Innocenti, violin
Christopher Ferrer, cello
Elena Doubovitskaya, piano

Ryan Alexander, baritone

Angela De Venuto, soprano

Christina Bernardoni, mezzo-soprano

Emily Venturella, soprano

Julian Otis, tenor

Program:

Natasha Bogojevic | Threnody of Hope *, text by Clare Harner,

Ephraim Champion | grace *, text by Joy Harjo–issue pending with text, please hold

Ethan Dymit | Kinderstucke *, traditional texts

Xavier Beteta | Xib’nelab’ * ,text by poet Humberto Ak’abal

Angel Bat Dawid | Voice from the Catacombs *, text based on William Demby’s novel

Amos Gillespie | Musics (2018)

Movements I, III-Steady, driving, IV-Dance-like.

*World Premiere Performance

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Lakeshore Rush is a mixed chamber ensemble joined by five dynamic vocal soloists as they premiere works by Natasha Bogojevic, Ephraim Champion, Ethan Dymit, Xavier Beteta, and Angel Bat Dawid. The works range in scope from Bojojevic’s work "Threnody of Hope" written for the victims of gun violence everywhere, to Beteta’s work which is sung in the Mayan language Quiché, a score based on fairy tales and nursery rhymes from Dymit, and Dawid’s work based on William Demby's existential novel "The Catacombs."

Musics was written for the Gillespie Chamber Quartet and the premiere took place at the Green Mill in Chicago on May 20th, 2018.