Concord250 Event: Concord Women’s Chorus Concert: Still Heard Round the World: A Celebration of Music Written by and for Women

• Concord Fragments, a 2010 piece by renowned composer Libby Larsen, three movements set to texts by three Concord women: Lidian Emerson, from an 1843 letter to her husband, Ralph Waldo Emerson; Martha Lawrence Prescott, from an 1834 diary entry on her 18th birthday; and poet, former CWC member and Concord resident Melissa Apperson, from a poem inspired by Walden Pond. It is scored for women’s voices, oboe, clarinet, and piano.

• Grown Wild (2021), by contemporary composer Melissa Dunphy, based on a poem by Melissa Apperson, scored for women’s voices, piano, and violin.

We have commissioned a new arrangement of The Concord Hymn, using some or all of the instrumentalists from the program. This new arrangement will include audience singing participation, emphasizing unity by creating a special version of The Concord Hymn that engages all of those gathered – audience and performer alike.