The Concert Series opens with honey-voiced mezzo Hannah Penn channeling her inner Gertrude Stein to celebrate Queer love, joy, and empowerment. Featuring text from iconic femme poets Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles and Edna St. Vincent Millay set by composers Eve Beglarian, Dominick Argento, and Shiela Silver.
Vocal works (source of text in parentheses):
Dominick Argento | From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (Woolf)
Sheila Silver | Beauty Intolerable (Millay)
Eve Beglarian | Farther from the Heart (Jane Bowles)
Vivian Fine | The Human Mind (Stein)
Richard Hundley | Well Welcome (Stein)
Impossible To Invent New Words | Genevieve Muir*
*Deontes world premiere
Piano works
Angelica Negron | Sueno Recurrente
Johanny Navarro | Son a Papá
Clarisse Assad | Last Song
Poems (recited)
“Only Until This Cigarette is Ended” | Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Dreaming of Lesbos” | Tatiana de la Tierra
“The Courage that my mother had” | Edna St. Vincent Millay
“When I Say ‘I AM’” | Tatiana de la Tierra
“Recuerdo” | Edna St. Vincent Millay
“First Fig” | Millay
Performers:
Hannah Penn, voice
Maria Garcia, piano
Doors at 7:00 pm, Show at 7:30 pm
Runtime: 90 Minutes with intermission
$35 General Admission
$30 Senior (65+)/Under 30
$25 Students (w/ valid ID)
$5 Arts-for-All (call to check availability)
*All Tickets are $5 more the day of the show
HANNAH PENN / Voice
Hannah Penn, mezzo-soprano, enjoys a diverse career as a performer of opera, oratorio, and recital literature. Frequently praised for her musicality and the timbre of her voice, Ms. Penn has recently been called “…a major talent”, and “…an intelligent and wonderfully musical singer” by Portland’s Willamette Week, and was praised for having “…intriguing colors at both ends of her range” by The Oregonian. She has sung more than twenty operatic roles with Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Portland Opera, Tacoma Opera, and other companies.
Maria Garcia / piano
Maria began piano studies in her native Puerto Rico at the age of four making her debut with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra at the age of ten. She holds a Bachelor’s of Music with Distinction in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and a Master’s degree as well as Doctoral studies from SUNY Stony Brook. Her main teachers have been Luz Hutchinson, Victor Rosenbaum and Gilbert Kalish. Read more
ABOUT THE VENUE
Transportation: The venue is a 2 minute walk from the NE MLK & Alberta bus stops. Plan your trip.
Accessibility: Venue is wheelchair accessible through the main entrance.
Parking: Parking lot behind the building accessible from either Emerson or Sumner street. There is also street parking on MLK and other side streets.
ABOUT THE 23/24 Season
Third Angle’s 23/24 Season embarks on a journey from dreamworlds, to human connection, and even to the absurd. We’ll bend your mind with a glitching multimedia experience that turns censorship and surrealist video into musical psychedelia; ascend into a sky of ancient souls; celebrate Queer love and joy; and unify sound, mind, and body through vibration.
Joining us is a cast of artists including inaugural Guest Creative Director Derion Loman, soulful mezzo-soprano Hannah Penn, and Rabbit Rabbit Radio’s sonically rebellious Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi, not to mention some familiar 3A faces.
