KANSAS CITY WOMEN’S CHORUS
2022-23 SEASON
SING LIKE A GIRL
Tickets range in price from $20 – $35 and are available for purchase online or one hour prior to showtime at the venue.
Sing “Like a Girl” will explore (with some seriousness and some tongue-in-cheek) the expectations imposed on women for hundreds of years and how we have navigated through time, adapted, and learned to lead, heal and rise. All songs in the program are composed by women, written about women, and include the spoken and written words of women.
Featuring “Lifting As We Climb” by Joan Szymko, a 3-movement work commissioned by GALA Choruses in 2020 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Ratification of the 19th Amendment. All lyrics come from speeches and poems by suffragettes such as Ellen Hagan, Sarah Grimke, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Carrie Catt, Anna Julia Cooper, Lucy Stone, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul and Mary Church Terrell.
Hildegard Motets 1. “O Choruscans lux stellarum”, 2. “O Virtus Sapientie”, 4. “Nunc Gaudeant”
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) was the first identifiable female composer of Western Music in history, and the most recorded monophonic composer of the high Middle Ages. She was also a German Benedictine Abbess, Mystic and Visionary.
“Now I Become Myself” by Gwyneth Walker, sung to the words of May Sarton (1912-1995). Sarton was a Belgian-American poet and memoirist. She resisted the title of “lesbian writer”, preferring to convey the universality of human love. Her poem likens growing into oneself like a plant, going through uncertainty and fear and her gift as a writer strengthening her character and confidence, and feeling firmly rooted by love.
HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES
Join us in celebrating the season!
Our small ensemble, Heartsong, is performing throughout KC metro! Free admission, donations welcome.
Friday, Nov. 25 @ Mayor’s Christmas Tree Lighting
5:30p – Crown Center Square – 2405 Grand Blvd, KCMO 64108
Saturday, Nov. 26 @ Merry Market & Holiday Swing
11a – 2p – City Market – 5th & Walnut, KCMO 64106
Tuesday, Nov. 29 @ Function Junction Jingle Mingle Fundraiser
6p – 9p – Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd, 2nd Fl, KCMO 64108
Friday, Dec. 2 @ Independence Square Living Windows
6p – 7p – 112 W. Lexington Ave., Independence, MO 64050
Saturday, Dec. 3 @ Merry Market & Holiday Swing
11a – 2p – City Market – 5th & Walnut, KCMO 64106
Friday, Dec. 9 @ Strawberry Swing at J. Rieger & Co.
7p-8:30p – Electric Park – 2700 Guinotte Ave., KCMO 64120
Saturday, Dec. 10 @ Merry Market & Holiday Swing
11a – 2p – City Market – 5th & Walnut, KCMO 64106
Wednesday, Dec. 14 @ KC Streetcar Holiday Jam
6p-7:30p – Union Station Stop – 30 W Pershing Rd, KCMO 64108
ELEMENTS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2022 – 7PM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2022 – 7PM
Goppert Performing Arts Center
Avila University
73-109 E 118th St
Kansas City, MO 64145
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How can we sing the sun? fire? water? wind? space? earth?
The first concert in the Kansas City Women’s Chorus 2022-23 season takes us on a journey through the essential elements of life. Ten of the 13 pieces feature female composers, highlighted by a performance of She Rises by Catherine Dalton, who says she is “interested in exploring the physics of light and the mystery of illumination through the power of the human voice.”
The concert flows through water and air, then arcs with fire and reaches into the ether to explore the beauty and tumultuous power that is in and around us all. So many things are happening in our nation and world that affect women directly, and everyone indirectly. We will share music that inspires courageous tears … and enough rage to spark positivity and create change.