May 2023 Concert

Saturday May 6, 2023
St. Mark's Lutheran
​San Francisco

$10 suggested donation

Musae welcomes new artistic director Elizabeth Kimble for a program that explores the multifaceted experience of identity, or as Walt Whitman so aptly put it, "I contain multitudes." Loosely based on the Maiden/Mother/Crone mythos and inspired by Elizabeth's studies of depth psychology, the program offers snapshots of our individual development and experiences: the innocence and helplessness of childhood, the tumultuous and shifting experiences of adolescence, the strength and suffering of adulthood, the wisdom of age, and the unifying force which ties it all together. The program includes music composed by Rosephanye Powell, Robert Kyr, Kathleen Allan, Ola Gjeilo, Elaine Hagenberg, the Wyrd Sisters, Marie-Claire Saindon, Libby Larson, Tadeja Vulc, and Joan Szymko.​

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​A Song of Myself:
I Contain Multitudes

Elizabeth Kimble, Artistic Director
Saturday May 6, 2023, 4pm
Sunday May 7, 2023, 4pm

I.

AVE GENEROSA
Ola Gjeilo b. 1978
​Text by Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD
African-American Spiritual, arr. Rosephanye Powell b. 1962

LOVE AS A CHILD
Robert Kyr b. 1952
Text by Laurie Monahan after Corinthians 13:11-12, adapted by Robert Kyr

II.

SONG OF MIRIAM
Elaine Hagenberg b. 1979
Text by Rabbi Ruth Sohn b. 1954

MAID ON THE SHORE
Traditional Folksong, arr. Kathleen Allan b. 1989

WARRIOR
Kim Baryluk b. 1959

III.

O SAPIENTIA
Tadeja Vulc b. 1978

BLINDED BY A LEAFY CROWN
Marie-Claire Saindon b. 1984
Text by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) 

THE WOMANLY SONG OF GOD
Libby Larsen b. 1950
Text by Catherine de Vinck (1922-2021) 

IV.

STARS IN YOUR BONES
Joan Szymko b. 1958
Text by Alla Bozarth b. 1947