November 7, 2019
7:30PM
Fourth Coast honors the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment with the Chicago premiere of Lori Laitman’s Are Women People?, a vocal quartet song cycle with four-hand piano composed on the text of Susan B. Anthony and Alice Duer Miller. The program opens with songs by groundbreaking early American women composers, followed by songs that commemorate great moments of American reconciliation, and concludes with Laitman’s celebration of the woman’s right to vote.
Fourth Coast honors the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment with the Chicago premiere of Lori Laitman’s Are Women People?, a vocal quartet song cycle with four-hand piano composed on the text of Susan B. Anthony and Alice Duer Miller. The program opens with songs by groundbreaking early American women composers, followed by songs that commemorate great moments of American reconciliation, and concludes with Laitman’s celebration of the woman’s right to vote.
Music Room – Woman’s Club of Evanston
1702 Chicago Ave
Evanston, IL 60201
Program
AMY BEACH – Three Browning Songs, Op 44 (T)
MARION BAUER – Song of the Wanderer (SMT)
RUTH CRAWFORD-SEEGER – White Moon (M)
MIRIAM GIDEON – She Weeps Over Rahoon (T)
CARRIE JACOBS-BOND – Nothin’ but Love (B)
FLORENCE PRICE – Travels’ End (B)
AMY BEACH – Dark is the Night (S)
JENNIFER HIGDON – Lincoln’s Final, from Civil Words (B)
ANDREA CLEARFIELD – This Arc Towards Justice (S)
featuring J. Michael Weiss-Holmes, alto saxophone
JAKE HEGGIE – selections, The Deepest Desire (M)
featuring Marie Micol Bennett, flute
LORI LAITMAN – Are Women People? (SMTB)
Performers
Fourth Coast Ensemble
