Entries by lauradurham

2 for 1 Tickets?

That’s right. We are seeking feedback about our organization and we want to hear from you. If you fill out this survey we will send you a discount code to get two tickets to Poetry & Music for the price of one. It’s a win-win. You get to tell us what you think AND you […]

Voicing Coalescence, pt. 2

After Rain (Petrichor) Art, as the philosopher Suzanne Langer discovered, is the direct physical analog of human emotion, regardless of the medium.  That, more than anything, explains what makes the marriage of word and music possible.  It is not individual essences in the two forms that the composer seeks to unite, but the common essence […]

Voicing Coalescence…

POETRY AND MUSIC by Dr. Roger Miller, Professor Emeritus, University of Utah This concert focuses on the “marriage” of text and music. For composers to integrate the words of great poets and musical sounds is often a tricky business, but the skilled composer allows poetry to mold musical thought and the creations of both the […]