Songs From Here’s performing duo returns for their third season of concerts with “Love Today,” a program that celebrates love in its many forms. Soprano Sarah Tuttle and pianist Bridget Convey present a concert of songs celebrating love for friends, lovers, family, and the natural world – tranquil, tragic, and laugh-out-loud funny!
We’re excited to introduce three brand-new works to Maine audiences: Erica Ball returns with a suite of love songs, young composer Emmalynn Craft sets the words of abolitionist and suffragette Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to music, and Thomaston-native Marianna Filippi introduces “The Great Blue,” a suite for voice and piano about finding beauty, peace, and love among Maine’s wildlife – each piece written especially for Songs From Here. You can look forward to Millay poems set to music by Scott Wheeler, cabaret songs by Bolcom and Britten, and more.
Readings from local poet Mike Bove round out the program, which is sure to have something to delight everyone!
Songs From Here collaborates with Maine’s poets and composers to create locally-crafted classical song and unique performance experiences for our audiences. Each season, Sarah and Bridget put together a musical program that showcases brand-new songs written by Maine’s composers, featuring lyrics by Maine’s poets. The voice/piano duo bring their program to venues around the state.
Learn more at www.songsfromhere.com !
"Songs From Here brings together music and poetry in a way I've never seen before in Maine. The project is collaborative and inclusive, and seeks to connect with audiences all over the state. As a poet, it was a joy to experience the synergy that happens when artistic disciplines speak to each other on the same stage."
- Jefferson Navicky , award-winning poet & archivist, SFH ‘22 participating poet