I am honored to be performing in Lee Mingwei’s performance piece Sonic Blossom at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Sonic Blossom has been a transformative experience for me: The act of GIVING has become a meditation, and as I move through the gallery I can see in each person the possibility of connection and understanding. Each song performance is as unique as the person receiving the gift of song, and I am grateful to share what feels like a moment of perfection.
I will be performing the following dates/times: Please stop by to receive the gift of song :)
Wednesday, October 16th | 6:15-8:45pm
Saturday, October 19th | 12:15-4:15pm
Wednesday, October 23rd | 12:30-4:100pm
Friday, October 25 | 12:30-4:00pm
Sunday, October 27th | 12:00pm-3:30pm
Thursday, October 31st | 12:30-4:00pm
Thursday, November 7th | 12:00pm -3:30pm
Saturday, November 9th | 12:30-4:00pm
Thursday, November 14th | 12:00pm-3:30pm
Saturday, November 16th | 12:30-4:00pm
Sunday, November 24th | 12:00pm-3:30pm
Wednesday, November 27th | 12:00pm-3:30pm
Saturday, November 30th | 12:00pm-3:30pm
A word from Lee Mingwei:
Sonic Blossom came into existence while I was caring for my mother as she recuperated from surgery recently. We found great comfort in listening to Franz Schubert's Lieder. These songs came as an unexpected gift to us, one that soothed us both and clearly helped with her healing. At another level, seeing my own mother weak and ill made her (and my) mortality suddenly very real; aging, disease and death were no longer abstractions to me, but immediate and present. One day she--and I--will be gone. Like Schubert's Lieder, our own lives are brief, but all the more beautiful because of this.
