Songs of Darkness and Light

Описание: Performance recorded at the CMW Center, Providence, RI on December 14, 2024.

Songs of Darkness and Light was a family solstice-themed celebration featuring performances by the MusicWorks Collective with storyteller Valerie Tutson. The event featured a reading of The Longest Night by Marion Dane Bauer, with projected illustrations by Ted Lewin. In Bauer’s award-winning children’s book, various woodland creatures attempt to bring back the sun on the longest night of the year. But it’s the chickadee’s gentle song that persuades the light to return, demonstrating the power of music.

Program:
Winter (from the Four Seasons)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

II. Largo



Winter (from the Four Seasons)
Antonio Vivaldi
I. Allegro non molto

Spiegel im Spiegel
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

Arcadiana
Thomas Adès (b. 1971)

VI. O Albion




String Quartet no. 1
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1976)

I. Moderato

Bourrée / Partita no. 1 (Crow)
Prelude / Suite no. 6 (Moose)
Courante / Suite no. 1 (Fox)
Preludio / Partita no. 3 (Chickadee)
J. S. Bach (1685 - 1750)

String Quartet Op. 76 no. 4 “Sunrise”
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)

I. Allegro con spirito

Estampas Mexicanas
José L. Elizondo (b. 1972)

I. Ferial


Performers:
Kimberly Fang and Jesse Holstein, violins
Lisa Sailer, viola
Miguel Vásquez, cello
Valerie Tutson, storytelling

Audio by James Moses
Video by Atomic Clock

The Longest Night author Marion Dane Bauer was a founder of the Master in Fine Arts and Writing for Children program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has received numerous awards, including the Golden Kite Award in 2009 for The Longest Night. Ms. Bauer currently lives and works in St. Paul, Minnesota.


The Longest Night Illustrator Ted Lewin grew up in Buffalo, New York, with his siblings, a lion, an iguana, and a chimpanzee. Ted always knew he wanted to be an illustrator. As a child he copied the works of illustrators and painters he admired. When it came time to go to art school (Pratt Institute), he needed to earn money to finance his education, so he took a job as a professional wrestler – the beginning of a fifteen-year part-time career that eventually inspired his autobiographical book I Was a Teenage Professional Wrestler.


Storyteller Valerie Tutson is a graduate of Brown University with a self-designed major Storytelling As a Communications Art, and has a Masters Degree in Theater Arts. Valerie has been telling stories in schools, churches, libraries, festivals, and conferences since 1991 and has won numerous awards for her work. For thirteen years, she hosted Cultural Tapestry, an award-winning show celebrating the diverse cultures around us. Valerie is a founding member and Executive Director of RIBS (Rhode Island Black Storytellers) and the director of FUNDA FEST: A Celebration of Black Storytelling. She is also a proud CMW parent!

Learn more about Community MusicWorks and the MusicWorks Collective on our website:
https://communitymusicworks.org