Poetry in Performance Joshua Roman, cello and conductor Jessica Rivera, soprano David Kaplan, piano CMF Musicians

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ArC – Artistic Currents AT THE DAIRY
“we do it to one another,” Poetry in Performance
Joshua Roman, cello and conductor
Jessica Rivera, soprano
David Kaplan, piano
CMF Musicians
Saturday, July 16 | 7:30pm
The Dairy Arts Center

CMF Creative Partner and Senior TED Fellow Joshua Roman was commissioned to write a song cycle setting music to Tracy K. Smith’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry “Life on Mars”–and as a result, Roman’s “we do it to one another” was born. The evening will feature a performance of the piece by acclaimed soprano Jessica Rivera.  Also on the program is Oliver Messiaen’s ethereally beautiful Quartet for the End of Time.  The work was composed and premiered at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz, Germany, in 1941 after Messiaen was captured as a French soldier.