Lynx Project: Amplify Series 20-21 Premieres Concert
Virtual Premiere

Lynx Project: Amplify Series 20-21 Premieres Concert

Chicago

Thu, April 22, 2021, at 6:50 PM, CDT
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    Drinking policy
    Bring your own drinks

    This is a Groupmuse Virtual Premiere

    An online debut of exceptionally crafted pre-recorded content, coupled with musician + audience videochat.

    Host

    Scott G.

    LYNX’s Amplify Series sets the poetry and prose of neurodivergent individuals to music as contemporary classical song. Amplify advocates for the voices of neurodivergent individuals, and adds important new repertoire to this classical vocal music genre. LYNX is a nonprofit art song organization that celebrates diverse voices through newly commissioned song and connects communities through inclusive concerts and innovative educational programming.

    Writers whose poetry and prose is featured in this year’s musical commissions are Aiden Levy, Pablo Hernandez, Mitchell Robins, and Benjamin Smidt. These young writers are primarily non-speaking, and use alternative methods of communication including letterboarding.

    The songs that feature their words include new commissions by Chicago composers Nico Gutierrez, Michelle Isaac, Liza Sobel, Pierce Gradone, and Mike McFerron, and are performed by soprano Kristina Bachrach, mezzo soprano Leah Dexter, baritone Nicholas Ward, and pianist Daniel Baer.

    What's the music?

    Kristina Bachrach Soprano
    Daniel Baer Piano
    Nicholas Ward
    Leah Dexter Mezzo Soprano

    In the Depths by Pierce Gradone / text by Benjamin Smidt

    I Love You by Liza Sobel Crane / text by Mitchell Robins

    Hope! by Michelle Isaac / text by Benjamin Smidt

    I. Trapped
    II. Faith
    III. Hopeful
    IV. Freed
    V. Beauty

    Weather Songs by Mike McFerron / text by Aiden Levy
    What is in a Wind Sound
    The Clouds were Piling

    Having Words That Learn to Fit by Nico Gutierrez / text by Pablo Hernandez
    Nighttime Meeting by Nico Gutierrez / text by Pablo Hernandez
    Have a Happy Mind by Nico Gutierrez / text by Pablo Hernandez

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