music + voices + electronics + movement + poetry + music + voices + electronics + movement + poetry + music

Itasca : a poem for voices & live electronics

on the 1832 journey of Henry Schoolcraft & Oza Windib to the source of the Mississippi River

words by John Shoptaw (UC Berkeley) + music by Eric Sawyer (Amherst College) + choreography by Wendy Woodson

featured performers :
Ann Moss, soprano
Amalia Martin Dobbins, mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Howard, contralto
Buddy James, baritone
Eric Sawyer, keyboards

sponsored by :
The Consortium for the Arts
The Center for New Music & Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
The Department of English, UC Berkeley

Note: pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m.