On March 13, 2011 the Ashmont Hill Chamber Musicians in collaboration with the talented poet Regie O'Hare Gibson performed at the Massachusetts state finals of Poetry Out Loud.
Photos by Sheppard Ferguson.
The Ashmont Hill Chamber Music Players: D’Anna Fortunato, Rachel Goodwin, Barbara Lefitte and Doug Lippincott performing on March 13th at Old South Meeting House for the Massachusetts state finals for Poetry Out Loud.
Regie first performed Carl Sandburg’s Poems Prayers of Steel and Rat Riddles to the participants and audience members at the Poetry Out Loud finals
Then the AHCM Players performed Ruth Crawford Seeger’s reinvention of Sandburg’s poems with D’Anna Fortunato’s voice filling the Old South Meeting House.
The performers pose after Poetry Out Loud is over the finalists have been announced. From left to right: Gibson, LeFitte, Lippincott, and Goodwin (missing from photo: D’Anna Fortunato).
Supported under the NEA’s American Masterpieces grant program, Music, Poetry and American Identity is AHCM’s most recent community music initiative to reach audiences of all levels and communicate the importance of the early modernist composer Ruth Seeger Crawford and the poetry of Carl Sandburg that inspired her. The AHCM Players and Regie Gibson will present educational residencies in May at Boston Latin School and Dorchester Academy. The concert season will culminate in a performance to be held at Parish of All Saints
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