Demonstration
For our January 8 program Robert Nelson, Sonja Bruzauskas, Leavell Haymon and Gretchen Loro we will present a colloquy on collaboration and interaction among artists in several disciplines. The participants will be Sonja Bruzauskas, internationally known mezzo-soprano; Ava Leavell Haymon, the Poet Laureate of the state of Louisiana; Gretchen Loro, a well known and prolific visual artist; and Robert Nelson, composer and Professor Emeritus at the Moores School of Music. The focus of our discussion will be a recently released CD, appropriately entitled Watercolors, and more specifically a song cycle with the same name which is a setting of poems by Ava Leavell Haymon. Original cover art for the CD was created by Gretchen Loro and her watercolor paintings will be on display. Ava will read her "Watercolors Lessons" poems and Sonja will perform the Watercolors songs live, accompanied by pianist Roy Wylie. (Other selections from the CD will be heard during the social time following the presentation.) The inspiration for “Two Rockers on a Sun Porch”, the final song in the Watercolors cycle, was inspired by a painting by WASH member Judi Betts. We will be showing a number of her rocking-chair paintings during the performance of this song and we are hoping that Judi will be in attendance for this program.
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