EPISODE · Jan 19, 2024 · 59 MIN
Heather Christian — TERCE: A PRACTICAL BREVIARY
from The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers · host Heather Christian, Dan Rubins
Follow The Present Stage on Instagram at @thepresentstageThe Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for Slant Magazine. You can also find Dan's reviews on Cast Album Reviews and in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted column.Terce: A Practical Breviary is running at the Prototype Festival through February 4th at The Space at Irondale. Terce: A Practical Breviary is a production by HERE. Find out more at www.prototypefestival.org.The Present Stage supports the national nonprofit Hear Your Song. If you'd like to learn more about Hear Your Song and how to support empowering youth with serious illnesses to make their voices heard though songwriting, please visit www.hearyoursong.org Follow The Present Stage on Instagram at @thepresentstageThe Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for Theatermania and Slant Magazine. You can also find Dan's reviews on Cast Album Reviews and in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted column.The Present Stage supports the national nonprofit Hear Your Song. If you'd like to learn more about Hear Your Song and how to support empowering youth with serious illnesses to make their voices heard though songwriting, please visit www.hearyoursong.org
What this episode covers
"I have no artistic restraint/Everything I see I paint/In the image of myself/I am the vine." Composer and librettist Heather Christian joins The Present Stage to talk about her latest choral stage work, Terce: A Practical Breviary at the 2024 Prototype Festival. Tune in to hear her talk about the nature of bliss, her composing and artistic community-building process, and the female mystics whose words inspired this work.
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