CMS has commissioned over 160 works from an impressive array of composers including George Crumb, Leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom, Darius Milhaud, and many more. The group offers an extraordinary number of opportunities in educational outreach annually, and its frequent appearances on PBS’ “Live from Lincoln Center” and NPR’s “Performance Today” have been experienced by millions …
The program features the incredible layered rhythms by noted percussionist and composer John Beck. This is followed by select rags from George Hamilton Green and a mesmerizing trio piece from Steven Snowden that will leave you in a trance by watching the masterful way the musicians move together in harmony to create a complex wash …
Join us at Hub City Bookshop on Saturday, February 22nd to celebrate the book launch of Homemaking by Lee Matalone - a talented, powerful new voice in fiction. This stunning novel is about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a house a true home.
THE MILK HOURS by John James Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss.“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, …
