Montgomery Variations

Name: Montgomery Variations
Start: 2025-11-02T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-02T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Woolsey Hall

Schedule

Sun Nov 02 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Woolsey Hall | New Haven, CT

Sunday, November 23 at Woolsey Hall: Explores themes of resilience and remembrance through Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations, community singing, and "Sanctum" by NHSO Composer-in-Residence Courtney Bryan.
Music Director Perry So says, “In this concert I am thrilled to welcome our new composer-in-residence, Courtney Bryan, to New Haven. Over the next two seasons we will explore Courtney’s music, and get to know her multifaceted musical world that encompasses everything from concert music and jazz, to spirituals, improvisations and collaborations with visual artists. We will begin this exploration with her piece Sanctum, which weaves together recorded sermons and Courtney’s musical response to police brutality. The concert closes with a rediscovered masterpiece, Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations, written at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, that takes us into the heart of a composer’s experience of the heroic struggle the brutality of the Jim Crow South.”
Sunday, November 23 at 3PM
Woolsey Hall - New Haven, CT
Adult tickets start at $15.
Youth under 18 are free with an adult ticket purchase.
College students are $10.
Sponsored by Connecticut Department of Economic Development, Office of the Arts.