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SUMMARY:[Solidarity] For Our Common Home: resounding ecojustice concert
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DESCRIPTION:Event details: https://xrboston.org/action/solidarityfor-our-c
 ommon-home/\n\nNew England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Conte
 mporary Improvisation (CI) Department previews a new work by flutist\, com
 poser\, and faculty member Linda J. Chase\, created in collaboration with 
 theologian and author Harvey Cox. “For Our Common Home: resounding ecoju
 stice” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday\, November 7 in NEC’s 
 Brown Hall\, 290 Huntington Avenue\, Boston. **Admission is free.** \n\nTh
 e libretto is based on Laudato Si’\, an encyclical issued by Pope Franci
 s in 2015\, which calls on humanity to acknowledge the urgency of the envi
 ronmental crisis and work towards building a more just and sustainable wor
 ld. As Pope Francis said: “Our goal is not to amass information or to sa
 tisfy curiosity\, but rather to become painfully aware to dare to turn wha
 t is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus to di
 scover what each of us can do about it.” Chase’s new oratorio interpre
 ts the text as a call to action through music.\n\nThe preview of Chase’s
  90-minute\, 22-movement genre-crossing oratorio for choir\, soloists\, an
 d chamber ensemble will feature NEC students from the Voice\, Woodwind\, O
 pera\, Brass\, String\, Contemporary Improvisation\, and Jazz departments.
  In addition to the orchestral and choral score\, ten songs from the orato
 rio will be arranged for community singing and assembled into a songbook f
 or piano or guitar and voices.\n\nLinda J. Chase\, PhD is a composer\, eco
 musicologist\, and flutist. Her music weaves elements of chamber music\, j
 azz and contemporary improvisation with spoken word and interdisciplinary 
 arts. She has received composition awards from the Japan Foundation\, Gran
 d Canyon National Park\, Kaji Aso Studio\, the Morris Graves Institute\, B
 erklee College of Music\, Studio Red Top and ASCAP. She is an active membe
 r of Landscape Music Composers Network. Professor Chase teaches compositio
 n\, performance\, music and spirituality\, ecomusicology\, and interdiscip
 linary arts at Berklee College of Music\, and New England Conservatory. Ch
 ase is certified through Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to lead Deep Lis
 tening workshops\, founded by Pauline Oliveros.\n\nIn 2016- 2017\, Chase s
 erved as composer in residence at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church where s
 he collaborated with Reverend Dr. Harvey G. Cox to create The City is Burn
 ing. This multi-media oratorio based on multi-faith sacred texts contempla
 tes how the arts can deepen awareness that inspires action. In 2012\, she 
 was Artist in Residence at Grand Canyon National Park and created Grand Ca
 nyon Sketches for string quartet and voice. She has incorporated poetry of
  Rumi and Jane Hirshfield in her compositions and performances.\n\nNEC’s
  Contemporary Improvisation program addresses the unique needs of musician
 s seeking to move beyond traditional boundaries. The department brings tog
 ether a tremendously diverse group of the world’s finest young artists i
 n a setting where they can grow in a community of composers\, performers\,
  and improvisers. With an emphasis on ear training\, technique\, conceptua
 l ideas\, interdisciplinary collaboration\, and a wide range of improvisat
 ional traditions\, the CI program is uniquely positioned to cultivate the 
 complete 21st century global musician. Founded in 1972 by Gunther Schuller
  and Ran Blake\, the department is “a thriving hub of musical exploratio
 n.” (Jeremy Goodwin\, Boston Globe).\n\nAbout New England Conservatory\n
 New England Conservatory (NEC) is recognized internationally as a leader a
 mong music schools\, educating and training musicians of all ages from aro
 und the world for over 150 years. With 800 music students representing mor
 e than 40 countries in the College\, and 2\,000 youth and adults who study
  in the Preparatory and Continuing Education divisions\, NEC cultivates a 
 diverse\, dynamic community for students\, providing them with performance
  opportunities and high-caliber training with internationally esteemed art
 ist-teachers and scholars. NEC’s alumni\, faculty and students touch nea
 rly every aspect of musical life in the region\; NEC is a major engine of 
 the vital activity that makes Boston a musical and cultural capital.
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