
Eudaimonia: Gates of Justice
Sun, May 19
|Cambridge


Time & Location
May 19, 2024, 7:00 PM
Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
About the event
Join Eudaimonia for a concert capturing parallels between the Black and Jewish experience from 1624 to 2024, lifting up Social Action Partners who pursue justice within these two communities. Connecting contemporary choral works with earlier musical portraits of oppression and redemption, the program includes Dave Brubeck's jazz-infused , Salamone Rossi’s prayer of remembrance (), Horace Silver’s , instrumental works by Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges (Mozart’s Black contemporary), as well as choral and solo movements from Baroque works portraying Old Testament heroines Esther and Judith. The ensemble is excited to introduce , a new vocal group project. Soloists for this program are Monty Hill, Maverick, Molly McGuire, Laura Thomas, and David Smyth. Other ensemble vocalists include Cameron Dobson, Nathan Halbur, Jocelyn Limmer, Eva Montgomery-Morrison, Iris Pfrommer, joined by singers from across the Boston community. And, as always, the concert will be enriched by a stellar core of Eudaimonia instrumentalists, featuring Diane Heffner as clarinet soloist and on chalumeau, Na’ama…