A spokesperson says---
“...Whistling Hens - soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick and clarinetist Natlie Groom...
perform music by women composers with the goal of creating a financially and artistically equitable future for women in music. Their name was plucked from a quote by a male music critic who wrote in The New York Times in 1918, “women composers are at best whistling hens.”
Their program features two world premieres commissioned by the duo: Victoria Bond's Lingerie and Canciones de amor y soledad by Sonia Morales-Matos, plus works by Jennifer Stevenson, Melissa Dunphy, and Judith Shatin….
Lingerie is about women’s undergarments, those sexy, saucy and sassy little things that cost so much and cover so little. From a bra that mashes the wearer's breasts into a shape never intended by nature to a dream of being in public dressed only in a pair of lacy red panties, this multi-movement work is witty and humorous. With text written by the composer, the experiences of wearing these intimate articles of clothing will be familiar to most women. The duo also performs Bond's jazz-influenced work Scat 2, which the singer is instructed to “sing nonsense syllables as a text which can be freely invented.”..."
PROGRAM:
Jennifer Stevenson: Nesta Rua
Jennifer Stevenson: Musical Invective*
Melissa Dunphy: Chants*
Sonia Morales-Matos: Canciones de amor y soledad
Judith Shatin: Come Live With Me
Victoria Bond: Lingerie*
Victoria Bond: Scat 2
