Season 10 - Celebration
Playtime
A Sonic Adventure at Green Door Gourmet
Saturday, December 2, 2023, 3pm
Family Friendly Ticketed Performance
Green Door Gourmet
7007 River Road Pike
Nashville, TN 37209
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PLAYTIME was a family friendly concert celebrating the 10th season of Intersection!
Tickets included a custom box of chocolates by local Nashville micro-chocolate factory Poppy and Peep featuring handcrafted chocolate bars designed to accompany Maxime Goulet's Symphonic Chocolates. Flavors included:- Salted toffee milk chocolate- 64% Dark chocolate- Popping peppermint- Coffee dark chocolate
Additional musical works included TJ Cole's Playtime Miniatures for string sextet with whimsical movements such as Bubble Brite Popcorn, Ooey Gooey Nursery Rhyme and Rainbow Train Tag; Angelica Negron's Bubblegum Grass and Peppermint Field for string quartet and electronics "inspired by the idea of daydreaming and escaping to a personal made up land"; and Nina Shekhar's Turn Your Feet Around for Sinfonietta and electronics inspired by Gloria Estefan and 80's dance moves!
We enjoyed dancing, chocolate and musical play in the beautiful barn at Green Door Gourmet.
PROGRAM
Maxime Goulet: Symphonic Chocolates
Angelica Negron: Bubblegum Grass and Peppermint Field
Nina Shekhar: Turn Your Feet Around
TJ Cole: Playtime Miniatures
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ARTISTS
Kelly Corcoran, conductor
Christina McGann, violin
Annaliese Kowert, violin
Cristina Micci-Barreca, viola
Eric Wong, viola
Meghan Berindean, cello
Kaitlyn Raitz, cello
Tiffany Freeman, bass
Deanna Little, flute
Jared Hauser, oboe
Todd Waldecker, clarinet
Gil Perel, bassoon
Jennifer Kummer, horn
Alec Blazek, trumpet
Christine Comer, percussion
Chris Norton, percussion
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PLAYTIME - New Lens
Sunday, October 8, 2023
21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY
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We were honored to present some of our Playtime repertoire on tour in Louisville presented by Louisville Public Media.
View the Digital Program from Playtime at New Lens here
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This project was supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
EVENT PHOTOS COMING SOON
Art and Activism
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - Free Event
6:30 - snacks and mingling
7-8pm - interactive conversation
Tennessee Justice Center
155 Lafayette St., Nashville, TN 37210
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Artists
Rod McGaha
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger
Gary Powell Nash
Kelly Corcoran
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Intersection hosted a casual, interactive community conversation around art and activism. This gathering at the Tennessee Justice Center featured composers Gary Powell Nash and Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, musician and photographer Rod McGaha and conductor Kelly Corcoran, all of whom experience and create art in dialogue with the issues of our time and invite community conversation. Gary and Robbie Lynn discussed their newly composed works for intersection, Robbie Lynn led attendees in a communal music making experience, and Rod shared how he uses photography as a tool to communicate, empowering us all to capture our experiences through photos and creative means.
EVENT PHOTOS COMING SOON
Thin Places
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:30pm
Trinity Presbyterian Church
3201 Hillsboro Pike
Nashville, TN 37215
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Thin places are described in Celtic spirituality as places where the space between heaven and earth is thinner, or in more secular terms, they are spaces that invite us to connect with things beyond ourselves. This concert, titled Thin Places to evoke this concept, presented the world premiere performances of musical works written for Intersection in celebration of our 10th season.
Gary Powell Nash’s Look for the Helpers is largely based on and inspired by the tragic shootings at the Covenant School in Nashville, TN and Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI, both occurring around the same time in 2023. Composer Sungji Hong's Igerthi for Piano and Sinfonietta is a piano concerto specifically written for Jihye Chang with funds from Hong’s Guggenheim Fellowship. The work takes its title from the Greek text for “He has risen”. Pianist Jihye Chang will perform two solo works written for her inspired by the chorale Ein Feste Burg and Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Bells. These works celebrate humanity and the forces that embrace us.
At Trinity Presbyterian Church we experienced these works for the first time with an ensemble of 15 players and the virtuoso playing of Jihye Chang on piano.
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PROGRAM
Shinuh Lee: Chorale Fantasy No. 4 - Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott (for solo piano)
Sungji Hong: Silver Bells! (for solo piano)
Gary Powell Nash: Look for the Helpers *World Premiere
Sungji Hong: Igerthi for Piano and Sinfonietta *World Premiere
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ARTISTS
Jihye Chang, Piano
Kelly Corcoran, Conductor
Sungji Hong, Composer
Gary Powell Nash, Composer
Deanna Little, Flute
Jared Hauser, Oboe
Mark Cramer, Clarinet
Peter Kolkay, Bassoon
Tara Johnson, Horn
Fred Sienkiewicz, Trumpet
Evan Clifton, Trombone
Christine Comer, Percussion
Erin Booker-Miller, Harp
Maria Romero Ramos, Violin
Esther McMahon, Violin
Cristina Micci-Barreca, Viola
Kaitlyn Vest, Cello
Tiffany Freeman, Bass​​​​
EVENT PHOTOS COMING SOON
Boundless Beats
Friday, May 3, 2024
Nashville Public Library - Downtown
615 Church Street
3:30pm - FREE
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Boundless Beats is a casual, public sharing of collaborations and creations among Intersection and Southern Word artists. Southern Word music producers were in residence weekly at Studio NPL at the Nashville Public Library creating works in collaboration with teens and other community members. Intersection musicians joined this community for several weeks to explore what new music would emerge in this interactive space. On May 3rd we gathered to meet the artists, learn more about the collaboration and hear some of the new creations.
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INTERSECTION MUSICIANS
Annaliese Kowert, Violin
Kaitlyn Raitz, Cello
Alessandra Volpi, Piano
Lawson White, Percussion
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SOUTHERN WORD MUSICIANS
Christian Ezell
Soteria Francis
Michelle Greene
Elijah Ware​
Event Photos Coming Soon
10th Anniversary Party & Lullaby Showcase
Sunday, May 19, 2024 - 4-6pm
Tennessee Justice Center
Patio and Lounge
155 Lafayette Street
Nashville, Tennessee
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We celebrated the 10th anniversary of Intersection with some light drinks and food along with Lullaby performances by Rosa Rodriguez and Rachel Rodriguez.
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PERFORMERS
Rachel Rodriguez
Rosa Rodriguez
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Upon These Shoulders:
Juneteenth at the Tennessee State Museum
Saturday, June 15, 2024 - 1pm
Tennessee State Museum
1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd
Nashville, Tennessee
Upon These Shoulders is an annual event, launched in 2017 by Choral Arts Link and Intersection, working with community partners to celebrate the many heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, historically and today. Performances in this series have included the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by composer Jonathan Bailey Holland exploring race, equity and youth; a celebration of the music of Florence Price, and a 10 day residency by composer and performer Hannibal Lokumbe.
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This year, in lieu of our formal Upon These Shoulders event, we are thrilled to be a part of the Tennessee State Museum's Annual Juneteenth Celebration! We will have a string quartet of intersection musicians performing contemporary works by Rhiannon Giddens, Charlton Singleton and more.
Learn more about the Tennessee State Museum Juneteenth Celebration here.
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Repertoire
Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser's Option with Variations
Charlton Singleton: Testimony
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String Quartet
Christina McGann, Violin
Esther McMahon, Violin
Cristina Micci-Barreca, Viola
Kaitlyn Raitz, Cello​​​​
Event Photos Coming Soon