Her Only Light is a new staged performance of the music of Connie Converse, one of the great lost musical voices of the 20th century. “Lost” in the figurative sense, as a woman whose songs were ahead of her time in an era when her male counterparts more easily achieved fame in the nascent Greenwich Village folk scene; but also lost in the literal sense, when — at the age of 50 — she wrote goodbye notes to friends and family and vanished, never to be heard from again. Connie’s life story and her disappearance from human society are the backdrop against which the audience is invited to explore her art songs, including excerpts from her mysterious and breathtaking Cassandra Cycle. These songs are performed as interconnected chamber theatrical works, featuring vocalist Emmy Bean and arranged by composer and music director Ronnie Kuller for a 6-piece ensemble of strings and winds. Movement, interaction, objects, light and shadow are also employed as players in this program, creating a patchwork quilt of stories on a set of common themes. In conjuring the voice of Connie Converse through these works, we invite audiences to acknowledge our shared grief, disconnection, and the radical possibilities of collective dreaming and remembrance.
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