Hello, friends!
I would like to invite you to a concert that’s very special to me as it’s my Austin conducting debut. I’d love to see many familiar faces in the audience!
The concert is called Inversion at the Library, and it’s on Saturday, April 13 at 7:30pm at the Austin Public (Central) Library downtown. The organization I’m part of, Inversion, firmly believes in amplifying through music the voices of those who are marginalized and vulnerable, and this concert represents so much of our core philosophy.
Stories of the common lived experiences of immigrants are at the heart of this concert that heavily features my professional treble chorus Da Capo in their debut performance under my direction. These songs, most of them by BIPOC composers and poets, take us through different sound worlds that weave together a tapestry of shared joys, heartaches, hopes, and dreams. We’re performing in a couple of different languages (Arabic, Spanish, Maguindanaon, Somali, Vietnamese, etc.) aside from English, and text and translations will be projected on screen, so you can follow along and also understand what we’re singing about.
I’ll be sharing the stage with Inversion Artistic Director Trevor Shaw who conducts the rest of Inversion’s family of ensembles—our mixed-voice professional ensemble, Coda (50 and up), and Nova (youth choir)—in performing music from different cultures around the world.
One of our First UU of Austin Monthly Offering recipients, Casa Marianella, will also be present at the concert as they are our Inversion Cares partner. (Inversion matches an organization with a particular concert theme to bring awareness to the work and needs of these organizations. We invite their representatives to the concert to share and interact with our audiences.)
Tickets can be bought at inversionatthelibrary.
I hope to see you there!
Warmly,
Rina
Stories of the common lived experiences of immigrants are at the heart of this concert that heavily features my professional treble chorus Da Capo in their debut performance under my direction. These songs, most of them by BIPOC composers and poets, take us through different sound worlds that weave together a tapestry of shared joys, heartaches, hopes, and dreams. We’re performing in a couple of different languages (Arabic, Spanish, Maguindanaon, Somali, Vietnamese, etc.) aside from English, and text and translations will be projected on screen, so you can follow along and also understand what we’re singing about.
I’ll be sharing the stage with Inversion Artistic Director Trevor Shaw who conducts the rest of Inversion’s family of ensembles—our mixed-voice professional ensemble, Coda (50 and up), and Nova (youth choir)—in performing music from different cultures around the world.
One of our First UU of Austin Monthly Offering recipients, Casa Marianella, will also be present at the concert as they are our Inversion Cares partner. (Inversion matches an organization with a particular concert theme to bring awareness to the work and needs of these organizations. We invite their representatives to the concert to share and interact with our audiences.)
Tickets can be bought at inversionatthelibrary.
I hope to see you there!
Warmly,
Rina
