Tell Arizona Legislators: We Must Fund the Arizona Commission on the Arts
For the 2023-2024 season, the Commission received a $5 million state appropriation that funded grants for artists, festivals, and organizations statewide. Now due to a significant State Budget deficit, the Commission risks receiving NO DOLLARS from the State for 2024-2025, potentially devastating the arts in Arizona. (The Commission provided nearly 20% of AMC’s funding this season.)
Click: CONTACT MY LEGISLATORS to go to the Arizona Citizens for the Arts page where you can automatically email your state senator and two representatives with an urgent plea to fund the Commission. You can add your personal impact message to let them know the effect it would have on AMC and on your quality of life.
Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 PM
All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 6300 North Central Avenue, Phoenix
Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 PM
Ascension Lutheran Church, 7100 North Mockingbird Lane, Paradise Valley
We are confronted daily with mysteries, conflicts, emotions, joys, heartbreaks, bombast, and silence. In this concert, we use the sea and its unpredictability as an example of all things transitory – yet eternal: life, death, love, hope, destruction, success, and failure. The oceans have always been a source of mystery, power, turbulence, and peace. “Oceans” touches on these ideas and emotions from several vantage points showing us how the sea is both wonderful and terrible, ever-changing and eternal.
We are confronted daily with mysteries, conflicts, emotions, joys, heartbreaks, bombast, and silence. In this concert, we use the sea and its unpredictability as an example of all things transitory – and yet, eternal: life, death, love, hope, destruction, success, and failure. The oceans have always been a source of mystery, power, turbulence, and peace. “Oceans” touches on these ideas and emotions from several vantage points showing us how the sea is both wonderful and terrible, ever-changing and eternal.
Two centerpiece works in the concert are memorials for those lost to the sea: Canticum Calamitatis Maritimæ commemorates the sinking of the passenger ferry MS Estonia in 1994, by Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, and Himenami – The Divine Wave by Dan Forrest is in memory of those lost in the tsunami that followed the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. You’ll hear two settings of e. e. cummings’ as is the sea marvelous, that leaves much to the imagination and allows us to consider the sea as a metaphor for love, existence, and eternity.
Jacob Narverud gives us the many sounds of the sea in Robert Bode’s poem I Hear Oceans, while Gabriel Jackson’s setting of Estonian poet Doris Kareva’s A ship with unfurled sails is a meditation on freedom. Matthew Orlovich helps us hear of Australian poet Victor Carrell’s exultation in I stand over tides of ocean where “My body thrills with life, my spirit wildly bounds,” and Susan LaBarr’s touching setting of Jonathan Owen’s Forever Gone leaves us with a lover standing on the shore and lamenting love lost … or of a chance not taken.
Use your Arizona Tax Credit donation to public schools to support our educational partner the Global Academy of Phoenix. Donate up to $400 per couple before April 15 and get it all back on your 2023 Arizona tax return.
Click here to visit the Alhambra Elementary School District online giving page, the be sure to select “Global Academy of Phoenix” and “Music” to target your donation.
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An Artistic Collaboration
At Ascension Lutheran Church
7100 North Mockingbird Lane, Paradise Valley
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