Identity Archives | Building Communities of Trust by Ann E. Feldman https://www.buildingcommunitiesoftrust.org/category/bcot/identity/ Empowering future leaders to create social change Mon, 02 May 2022 20:34:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.buildingcommunitiesoftrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Identity Archives | Building Communities of Trust by Ann E. Feldman https://www.buildingcommunitiesoftrust.org/category/bcot/identity/ 32 32 Beauty Hurts https://www.buildingcommunitiesoftrust.org/beauty-hurts/ https://www.buildingcommunitiesoftrust.org/beauty-hurts/#respond Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:43:17 +0000 https://bcot.wpengine.com/?p=700 Identity was a focal issue at the Eternal Feminine concert we produced at the major international concert venue Ravinia Park. This was the first, and unfortunately only, concert to focus solely on music by women composers. We commissioned composer Libby Larsen to write a song cycle for the great mezzo soprano Susanne Mentzer. The result […]

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A clip of mezzo soprano singing “Beauty Hurts” by composer Libby Larsen – a piece which Artistic Circles commissioned for its premiere at Chicago’s Ravinia Park, summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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