Celebrating Women's Music & Poetry - 3 World Premieres + a CD Release

Ensemble for These Times (soprano Nanette McGuinness and pianist Dale Tsang, joined by guest cellist Anne Lerner-Wright), celebrates the release of the ensemble's debut CD, Surviving: Women's Words, with a program of music and poetry by women artists, featuring 3 world premieres of commissioned music by Judith Shatin, Martha Stoddard, and Emma Logan, plus works by Pulitzer-Prize winner Melinda Wagner, rising star Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Czech prodigy Vitezslava Kapralova, as well as selected works from the new CD to poetry by Yala Korwin, Else Lasker-Schueler, and Mascha Kakeko with music by E4TT composer David Garner CD. Released on April 8, Surviving: Women's Words was described in Examiner.com as "fascinating," "compelling" and "passionate."



Judith Shatin's commission was supported in part by the JMCLA. Surviving: Women's Words made possible through a grant from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and also through the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, and supported by the Heller Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation and San Francisco Grants for the Arts."