A Benefit Concert for Help!ComeHome!

The Boston Opera Collaborative has graciously partnered with Help!ComeHome! to program a concert fundraiser whose proceeds will directly benefit Help!ComeHome! and the communities it serves throughout the US and Navajo Nation. Please join me alongside pianists Rachel Goodwin and Tae Kim and violinists Thomas Cooper and Roland Clark for an evening of Bach, Beethoven, Strauss, Turina, Dorado Schmitt, and African American Spirituals.

If you’re familiar with Help!ComeHome!, you know that for over a decade our volunteers and board members have served US citizens throughout the nation from countless backgrounds, traditions, and socioeconomic stations.  Regardless of background, each of us has experienced the beauty of a cool breeze on a hot day, the comfort of a familiar face in a new and strange setting, the heaviness of heartbreak, the pain of losing a loved one... While it’s impossible to capture the entire emotional spectrum of the human experience in one concert, our program will seek to celebrate and explore these universal experiences through the variety of styles presented and the poetic text of the art songs and spirituals.

A reception will follow featuring singer and guitarist Darla Dee-Gould and violinist Roland Clark.

We hope to see you there!

Program 

Tchavolo Swing - Tchovalo Schmitt

Tres Poemas (Olas gigantes, Tu pupila es azul, Besa el aura) - Joaquín Turina

Sonata No. 1 in G minor (Fuga, Siciliane, Presto) - J. S. Bach

Selections from Richard Strauss (Ständchen, Wiegenlied, Ich schwebe, Morgen)

Intermission

Partita No. 3 in E Major (Preludio, Loure, Gavotte en Rondeau) - J. S. Bach

Sonata No. 8 in G major Op. 30 No. 3 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Spirituals

His Name So Sweet (Hall Johnson, arr.)

Motherless Child (Moses Hogan, arr.)

Deep River (H. T. Burleigh, arr.)

About the Boston Opera Collaborative

Boston Opera Collaborative offers fresh opera experiences that put our audiences in close contact with the power of the human voice. Our year-round performance calendar features Boston’s brightest young talent in energetic and intimate productions of repertoire ranging from canon favorites to Boston premieres. We bring opera into unexpected places and find new ways to tell familiar stories, inviting the uninitiated to see their first opera and welcoming the lifetime fan to engage with our unique brand of music theater.

Boston Opera Collaborative’s roster artists come to us from the nation’s top conservatories, making Boston their home as they pursue the next stage of their careers. BOC provides performance and outreach opportunities, continuing education and professional development resources. We also provide opportunities for singers and others interested in arts administration to serve in an administrative capacity in one of our operational departments, from Production to Development, Marketing to Finance. Through this business model, they gain valuable hands-on experience in administrative skills that support their future careers in the arts.