Intersection ensemble presents Renewal
Saturday, October 5, 2019 7:30 PM-9:30 PM
George Shinn Event Center
Intersection is a flexible contemporary music ensemble dedicated to challenging the traditional concert experience and exploring music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The ensemble will present a performance of Renewal, a musical program featuring Intersection instrumentalists, Portara, percussionists Lee Vinson and Ji Hye Jung along with Sandbox Percussionists Terry Sweeney and Jonny Allen, on Saturday, Oct. 5, in the George Shinn Event Center on the Lipscomb campus.
Lipscomb students, faculty and staff can reserve a free ticket with their Lipscomb I.D. number. The general public may purchase tickets for $15 for youth (under 17), $20 for college students and $35 for individuals.
Kely Corcoran
Kelly Corcoran
The ensemble is conducted by Lipscomb School of Music adjunct professor and Intersection Artistic Director Kelly Corcoran.
Named “Best Classical Conductor” in 2015 by the Nashville Scene, Kelly Corcoran is a passionate advocate for the robust place of classical music in our lives and the lives of future generations.
Corcoran conducted the Nashville Symphony for nine seasons, both as associate conductor and director of the symphony’s chorus, where she conducted the orchestra in hundreds of performances and was the primary conductor for the education and community engagement concerts. Corcoran founded the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra fifteen years ago and continues to serve on the board.
Intersection’s Renewal
Intersection's Renewal
The performance will feature Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered (2018), about the need to preserve our planet, and Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al: Concerto for Percussion Quartet (2017), inspired by alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power.
Snider’s work is for chorus and instrumental ensemble and will feature Portara, a Middle Tennessee chorus made up of professional, semi-professional, and amateur singers. Cuong’s piece is for four percussion soloists and instrumental ensemble.
Both works emphasize the value of nature and our planet, and the performance will shed light on the beauty, fragility and resilience of our planet.