The concert will feature two works commissioned by Concord Women’s Chorus: Concord Fragments, a 2010 piece by renowned composer Libby Larsen, three movements set to texts by three Concord women: Lidian Emerson, from an 1843 letter to her husband, Ralph Waldo Emerson; Martha Lawrence Prescott, from an 1834 diary entry on her 18th birthday; and poet, former CWC member and …
Concord Women’s Chorus: The Harper’s Song: A Ceremony of Carols
Benjamin Britten’s beloved A Ceremony of Carols, with its magical sequence of carols, is at the heart of the December concert. Our program also features lyrical and inspired seasonal works, including Elaine Hagenberg’s haunting O Come, Emmanuel, David Conte’s lyrical Harper’s Song, and Ed Henderson’s dramatic Huron Carol.

