Laura Dixon Strickling’s 40@40Project opens with the world premiere of “Benediction” (poem by Christina Ramirez) for voice and piano. Daniel Schlosberg is the collaborative pianist.

Learn more about the 40@40 Project here.

Learn more about soprano Laura Dixon Strickling here.

Program:

On This Island (Benjamin Britten)

Fiançailles pour rire (Francis Poulenc)

Four Songs, Op. 2 (Arnold Schoenberg)

and

World Premieres of:

Benediction (Daron Hagen, Christina Ramirez)

Saint (Scott Wheeler, Jeffrey Harrison)

Prometheus’s Monster (Myron Silberstein, Karen Poppy)

Woman Walking (Nell Shaw Cohen, Megan Cohen)

Not Quite Stars (Juhi Bansal, Julie Gayber)

Two Old Crows (Juliana Hall, Vachel Lindsay)