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Elizabeth Shammash,mezzo soprano
Mezzo soprano Elizabeth Shammash has sung major roles with companies including New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Glimmerglass Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Berkshire Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Forth Worth Opera, Sarasota Opera, Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, and the Beijing Music Festival. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras, including the China National Symphony, Mostly Mozart Festival, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony, Academy of Saint- Martin-in-the-Fields, Los Angeles Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Pacific Symphony, National Symphony, Boston Baroque, Early Music Vancouver, Portland (OR) Baroque and Apollo's Fire, Cleveland's Baroque Orchestra. Festival appearances include Tanglewood, Marlboro, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, and Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series. Ms. Shammash has recorded extensively for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music on the Naxos label (including two discs of Yiddish Theatres songs), and also on the Newport Classic label (Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti). She received investiture from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in May 2007, and currently serves as the Cantor of Tiferet Bet Israel in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
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 Ilana Davidson, soprano
Internationally acclaimed for her crystalline soprano, assured musicality and interpretive insight, American soprano Ilana Davidson's repertoire spans the 12th to the 21st centuries. Her recording of William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience conducted by Leonard Slatkin won four Grammy Awards in 2006, including Best Classical Album. She has closely collaborated with such composers as John Zorn (in his Pierrot Lunaire-like setting of Chimeras, recorded on the Tzadik label) and Bright Sheng (performing his setting of Three Love Songs with violist Ida Kavafian, clarinetist Jon Menasse, and the composer at the piano). Several years ago, Ms. Davidson's association with the music of the Austrian composer, Ernst Krenek, began with rapturously received performances as the Queen in Das Geheime Königreich at the Krenek Festival in Vienna, and Die Nachtigall with the Austrian Chamber Symphony. The former spawned a series of projects dedicated to the composer's works, including a solo debut recording of his lieder, a recital tour, and ongoing performances of his opera, What Price Confidence. |
Hancock Congregational Church
47 Main Street
Hancock, NH 03449
It's been said that the main street of Hancock looks like the Civil War has just ended. Hancock's splendid Town Hall was rebuilt after a fire in 1820 and is now used as the Congregational Church and town offices. Well-preserved horse sheds are at the rear. At the top of the church is Bell #236, cast by Paul Revere's workshop. Norway Pond sets the town's tone in a most picturesque fashion!
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