Americana: Songs for Tenor & Soprano sponsored by LICA
Sunday, March 10 at 2 p.m.: The annual Long Island Composers Alliance concert is a song recital celebrating the American experience, songs that explore the diversity of American life, past and present. Come hear 11 LICA composers’ music.
Among them: “Sarah do not Mourn Me,” a song set to the words of a poignant letter written to the wife of a Civil War soldier, by Marga Richter; Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” set to music by Murray Cohen; and two songs set to the Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem Series” by Sonny Knable
After the concert, meet the performers and composers. Concert directors Cohen and Herbert Deutsch have been the organizers and directors of this annual LICA concert for all 19 years of this series. For additional information, visit www.licamusic.org.
The Bryant Library Scribes: Workshop Led by Roseanne Frank
Thursday, March 14 at 7 p.m.: Join the Scribes and bring your ideas, rough drafts, and polished revisions to this writer’s workshop. Picture book manuscripts, short stories, memoirs, novels-in-progress are all welcome. Bring five copies no longer than 1,500 words (1 ½ spaced) to workshop together and take your writing to the next level.
Discussion leader Roseanne Frank has published articles and numerous contest winning short stories online, in literary magazines and anthologies. Her book, “Bite Size Reads,” is available at the library. Frank is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and currently works at crafting picture books.
