Unremembered is a cycle of thirteen songs by Sarah Kirkland Snider to poems by Nathaniel Bellows about his childhood in rural Massachusetts. But this is the darker side of childhood. There are ghosts, witches and houseguests freezing to death. It’s not Anne of Green Gables with baked beans!
It’s scored for voices, chamber orchestra and electronics and is pretty eclectic. The voices are Padma Newsome, DM Stith and Shara Worden and none of them perform in a “classical” vocal style. The band is the Unremembered Orchestra, which includes members of ACME, Alarm Will Sound, ICE, The Knights and So Percussion and is conducted by Edwin Outwater of the late lamented Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
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