🏳️‍🌈 Dawn Harms, Music Director

Giuseppe Verdi - “Triumphal March” from Aida

Tribute to Renata Tebaldi - Italian Arias
- Verdi “Ritorna, Vincitor!” from Aida
- Verdi “Pace, pace mio Dio” from La Forza del Destino
- Giacomo Puccini “D’onde lieta uscì” from La bohème
- Francesco Cilea “io son l’umile ancella” from Adriana Lecouvreur
Harold Arlen Somewhere over the Rainbow
🏳️‍🌈 Melody Moore (guest artist)

🏳️‍🌈 Jessie Montgomery - Strum

Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No.6

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🏳️‍🌈 Part of BARS LGBTQ Composer and Performing Artist Series

Come in your Halloween costume and enjoy an evening of classical music with internationally renowned soprano, Melody Moore. Best costumes will win a prize!

Melody is currently celebrating the centenary of the birth of legendary soprano Renata Tebaldi by recording an album featuring selections from the Italian repertoire.  With BARS she will sing Italian opera arias associated with Tebaldi. 

African American composer Jessie Montgomery recently became the Composer in Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  We will perform her piece Strum, as part of BARS Women composer’s series.   The concert will conclude with Dvořák sublime Symphony #6. 

About Melody Moore:  Soprano Melody Moore is enjoying a thriving career on the world’s leading stages, prompting  Opera News to label her “a revelation,” and of her sold-out appearance at Carnegie Hall to rave, “As I left the auditorium, I could only think: more of Moore, please.”

Ms. Moore enjoyed a triumphant return to LA Opera during the 2021-2022 season, repeating her tremendous success in the role of Amneris in Verdi’s Aida.   The season also saw the release of Moore’s interpretation of the title role in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (available on Pentatone), and the recording of a critically acclaimed concert of Puccini’s Tosca, captured live in Berlin. In the fall of 2022, Moore will make a much-anticipated return to San Francisco Opera as Mère Marie in the Olivier Py production of Dialogues des Carmélites.  

Highlights of the 2019-2020 season included her debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Das klagende Lied.  In the 2018-2019 season, Ms. Moore returned to Houston Grand Opera to reprise the roles of Senta in the season opening production of Die fliegende Holländer led by Music Director Patrick Summers, and Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in a new production by Kasper Holten, and returned to LA Opera for a role debut as Gertrude in Hänsel and Gretel under the baton of Music Director James Conlon. Ms. Moore enjoyed a debut with the Grant Park Music Festival for Delius’ A Mass of Life.  In the 2017-2018 season, Moore made three major role debuts: Elisabetta in Don Carlo at Washington National Opera; the title role in Salome at Florida Grand Opera; and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin at Hawaii Opera Theatre.  Her portrayal of Desdemona in a full recording of Verdi’s Otello was also released by Pentatone.

Melody Moore is a former Adler Fellow of San Francisco Opera and an alumni of the prestigious Merola program. For more info go to https://melodymooresoprano.com/ Recordings on Pentatone https://www.pentatonemusic.com/artist/melody-moore/

Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator. She is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Foundation, the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, and her works are performed frequently around the world by leading musicians and ensembles. Her music interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, poetry, and social consciousness, making her an acute interpreter of 21st century American sound and experience. Her profoundly felt works have been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life” (The Washington Post).

Her growing body of work includes solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral works. Some recent highlights include Shift, Change, Turn (2019) commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Coincident Dances (2018) for the Chicago Sinfonietta, and Banner (2014)—written to mark the 200th anniversary of “The Star-Spangled Banner”—for The Sphinx Organization and the Joyce Foundation, which was presented in its UK premiere at the BBC Proms on 7 August 2021.

A founding member of PUBLIQuartet and a former member of the Catalyst Quartet, Jessie holds degrees from the Juilliard School and New York University and is currently a PhD Candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University. She is Professor of violin and composition at The New School. In May 2021, she began her three-year appointment as the Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 

 http://www.jessiemontgomery.com