Our 2005 season explores new music by composers living in the US who Melinda O’Neal and Steven Morris know personally. Our program will include a world premiere of a commissioned work by Christian Wolff and new works by Charles Dodge, John McDonald and Ileana Perez Velazquez. These composers are imminent in the world of new music and we are pleased to present their recent creations to you.

Also on this concert we explore music based on or related to folksong and mythology. It’s exciting to sense the history and associations that the stories and in some cases the melodies have for us. Britten’s Irish folk song arrangements, including The Last Rose of Summer, Ravel’s Cinq mélodies populaires grecques (Five Greek Folk Songs), Ralph Vaughan William’s Orpheus with His Lute, Ganymede by Franz Schubert, and Brahms robust Zigeunerlieder round out our eclectic program for both voices singing alone and together.