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Relentlessly Queer: Quorum Boston and Local, Living Composers (THURSDAY CONCERT)

Quorum Boston is an LGBTQ Vocal Ensemble - we specialize in singing music almost exclusively by queer composers. In the past, we've been trying to combat queer erasure among the classical music cannon.

In this concert, we're lifting up the voices of living composers in the Boston area - exclusively, joyfully, and unapologetically.

Why? Well, first of all, this music is gloriously beautiful. But more importantly, there is so much creative talent, with so many important things to say living in our great city. We want to showcase their voices instead of those who are past and gone, and we want you to hear what they have to say.

Our line-up:
+ "Show Me the Way" Sam Jones
+ "You are Your Body" inti logan figgis-vizueta
* "Gloria" from Messe Solennelle, Rian Grimmer
+ "The Human Portrait" Rafael Natan
* "Sapphic Fragments - Meditations on Queer Histories and Imaginaries" Julia Austenfeld; text by Sappho
+ "Kyrie" from "The King's Mass" ** Kelvyn Koning
"Things at the Apex of Their Arc This Summer Evening," Greg Nahabedian; text by Victor Florence
"Chant 1" Christopher Grills
+ "Contrition (Psalm 51)," "Perry - In Memory of Amelia," "Deluge (Psalm 42)" - shapenote fugues Leah Velleman
* "What is G_d" Quinn Gutman
+ "Vocal Bagatelle" **Anaís Azul
* "A Song of Healing," Mattia Mauree; text by Anonymous Soldier
"Three Madrigals," Zachary Wadsworth; text by Frederic Herbert Trench

+ = Choral Premiere (work originally performed by different type of ensemble)
* = World Premiere

The same program is being performed December 10th at the Josephine A. Fiorentino Community Center at 8pm. Both spaces are mobility accessible with gender-neutral mobility accessible bathrooms.