2024 Season
EcoVoice Season 2024
The seasons of our lives, our earth, are cyclical.
The EcoVoice Project will continue our seasonal programming schedule with four performances this year: Mass Reimagined for Earth Day (spring), Summer Solstice Observation and Chicago Sounds of Summer Series (summer), Reena Esmail’s Malhaar: A Requiem for Water (fall), and our second annual Winter Solstice Observation (winter). Join us as we continue to explore our cyclical connection with the planet in 2024.
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Mass Reimagined
Spring | Sunday, April 21, 2024, 3:00 PM
On the eve of Earth Day, Loyola University’s Ignatian Voices will collaborate with members of the New Earth Ensemble to premiere the Kyrie of Dongryul Lee’s Missa Laudato Si’ and reprise Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered.
Chicago Sounds of Summer
Summer | July 22-August 22, 2024
Check out our social media this summer, as we share a series titled “Chicago Sounds of Summer.” Produced by EcoVP intern Connor Williamson, these posts will celebrate the sounds of nature around us, as well as newly composed works featuring these soundscapes.
Check out our Summer Solstice Playlist!
WEEK 1 Cicada Invasion
WEEK 2 Lake Michigan Sunrise
WEEK 3 Falcon Flight
Malhaar: A Requiem for Water
Fall | Sunday, October 13, 2024, 3:00 PM
Loyola University, Palm Court
Mundelein Center for Fine and Performing Arts
Malhaar: A Requiem for Water represents composer Reena Esmail’s hope that humankind will improve its relationship to the earth and “beckon the rain back”. Performed by members of the New Earth Ensemble alongside tabla player Kalyan Pathak, Hindustani vocalist Jai Sovani, and (Western) percussionist John Corkill, this work combines texts from the traditional Latin Requiem mass, environmental writers, and traditional Hindi to explore the beauty and awe of water and humans’ relationship with it.
Admission is free, but reservations are encouraged.
Reena Esmail, composer
Kalyan Pathak, tabla
Jai Sovani, vocalist
The EcoVoice Project rounds out the 2024 season with a celebration of the winter solstice. A long-lasting tradition around the globe, our celebration will be centered around winter solstice traditions across space and time. With candlelight, wassail, and solstice crafts, this collaboration with Climate Action Evanston, Interfaith Action of Evanston, Evanston Public Library (Blue Berry Awards), and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will include music, stories, and reflections on our connection with nature. In addition to community singing, cellist Ian Maksin, flutist Emma Hospelhorn, and pianist Mabel Kwan will perform peaceful winter interludes, and WFMT host LaRob K. Rafael will share winter solstice stories.
Winter Solstice Celebration
Saturday, December 21, 2024, 7:30 PM
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
939 Hinman Ave Evanston, IL 60202