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During its second year, with the 2016-2017 season, Beth Morrison and Beth Morrison Projects curated a mini-series as part of the “Stir” performance series. The second season featured:

NOVEMBER 3RD, 2016
SONG FROM THE UPROAR (TOUR)
THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM (BOSTON, MA)
Composed by Missy Mazzoli | Libretto by Royce Vavrek

Song from the Uproar (2012) is a song cycle based on the life and writings of Isabelle Eberhardt, an early 20th century explorer, nomad, journalist, novelist, Sufi, and one of the most unique and unusual women of her era. At age twenty-seven Eberhardt drowned in a flash flood in the desert. Pages from her journals were pulled from the flood and dried, and one hundred years later became the inspiration for our libretto.

FEBRUARY 2ND, 2017
SOUND FROM THE BENCH (TOUR)
THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM (BOSTON, MA)
Music by Ted Hearne | Libretto by Jena Osman

Sound From the Bench is a 35-minute cantata for chamber choir, two electric guitars and drums, with a libretto by Jena Osman. It was co-commissioned by Volti and The Crossing. A reaction to Osman’s “Corporate Relations” — an incredible collection of poems that follows the historical trajectory of corporate personhood in the United States — the five movements of Sound from the Benchcombine language taken from landmark Supreme Court Cases with words from ventriloquism textbooks.

JUNE 1ST, 2017
NICO MUHLY & ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO
THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM (BOSTON, MA)
Music by Nico Muhly

Exploration of the counter-tenor voice by Nico Muhly and sung by Met Opera star Anthony Roth Costanzo. Featuring the song-cycle Principles of Uncertainty with visuals by Maira Kalman.