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ECLIPTIC
May 1, 2024 | 7:30pm

Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science
1 Museum of Science Driveway, Boston, MA

Join two of Boston's leading new music ensembles, Nightingale Vocal Ensemble and Juventas New Music Ensemble, for ECLIPTIC, a collaboration featuring world premieres for twelve voices, string quartet, and electronics.

The program features original music by Nightingale composers Laura Nevitt, Michal Nissimoff, Nicholas Ford, and Nathan Halbur, as well as Aaron Copland's epic choral masterpiece, In The Beginning, featuring mezzo-soprano soloist Felicia Gavilanes. Experience music telling the story of "light" in the universe brought to life by the planetarium's visual team and long-time Nightingale collaborator Chad Dorsey. Enjoy a fully immersive audio-visual experience and prepare yourself to spring into space!

-Ben Perry
Nightingale Artistic Director

Featuring Nightingale members:
Michal Nissimoff
Motomi Tanaka
Hannah Carlson
Felicia Gavilanes
Barbara Hill
Chihiro Asano
Zac Costantino
Morgan Mastrangelo
Arhan Kumar
Nathan Halbur
Michael Galvin
Jádon Brooks

PROGRAM NOTES

​Featuring a string quartet from Juventas New Music Ensemble:
Ryan Shannon, violin
Grant Houston, violin
Lu Yu, viola
Nick Johnson, cello

Juventas New Music Ensemble is a contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices. Juventas shares classical music as a vibrant, living art form. They bring audiences music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time.

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