A delightful reading of the Dylan Thomas classic story, featuring poetry of Frost, Dickinson & others. Set with music of Grainger, Britten, Clarke, Handel, Boyce and Old English Carols.
A delightful reading of the Dylan Thomas classic story, featuring poetry of Frost, Dickinson & others. Set with music of Grainger, Britten, Clarke, Handel, Boyce and Old English Carols.
Aurea sets its gaze on the subject of love in this Valentine program, merging the great Brahms G Major String Sextet, Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade, Gershwin’s Lullaby and Respighi’s Il Tramonto, with poetry of Shelley, Novalis, Rilke & Nigel Gore, and improvisations of Chris Turner.
MELVILLE and THE GREAT WHITE WHALE Two Performances - Free & Open to the Public Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 7:00PM & 9:00PM Council Chambers, Providence City Hall, 25 Dorrance St. Over the years Aurea has premiered five different pieces with FirstWorks, and performed at the Chicago Humanities Festival. Now they return to the FirstWorks […]
Set in the dramatic political and philosophical fray of colonial Rhode Island, Aurea introduces audiences to the strong-minded iconoclast, Roger Williams and his deep respect for Native American culture. Chamber music of Handel, Orlando di Lasso, John Milton, Henry Purcell, Barbara Kolb & Chris Turner, with writings of Roger Williams and Native American poetry. Guest Speaker John […]
Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Melville's birth in the beautiful acoustic space of St. John's Episcopal Church in Barrington, RI. Aurea sets its gaze on the life and times of Herman Melville and his seminal work, Moby-Dick. Fusing passages from the novel, Melville’s letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne –the novel’s dedicatee, string quartets of Beethoven and […]
On February 23rd, 2020, Aurea will premiere I Hear America Singing. With their signature blending of songs, poetry and prose, harmonica improvisations, and chamber music, Aurea celebrates Democracy, paying homage to Walt Whitman’s 2019 bicentennial and the 2020 centennial commemoration of the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. In addition […]
