Bellringer: Celebrating the Poetry of Rita Dove brings together the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and composer and bass-baritone Jonathan Woody. The world premiere of Woody’s new piece takes Dove’s poem honoring the life of Henry Martin—an enslaved bell ringer at UVA’s Rotunda who was born at Monticello on the day Thomas Jefferson died—and sets the story to moving and evocative music. A selection of poems curated by Dove will be read throughout the program, with musical responses by performers from Early Music Access Project.
Saturday 6/21. Free with registration, 3pm and 7pm. The Rotunda at the University of Virginia, 1826 University Ave. earlymusiccville.org
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