30th Anniversary Concert
Wingspan and Come, Union

April 16, 2011

To highlight its 30th anniversary season, Masterworks premieres the newly commissioned Wingspan: Personal Dreams, Universal Visions. Wingspan embodies a pilgrimage, a spiritual journey through life. Wingspan sets forth from the image of a golden eagle and follows in five movements the arc of: Resting, Rising, Soaring, Descending, Landing Again.

As part of this concert's celebration MCE reprises its 2006 commissioned work, Come, Union: An Exploration of Living in Gratitude, Being of Service. This eight-movement song cycle for choir and orchestra explores expansive themes of humanity and spirituality. Both Wingspan and Come, Union feature lyrics by Vonda Witley, music by Gary Witley, and orchestration by Mark Thome.

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Left Foot Organics

Left Foot Organics offers a vocational horticultural therapy program for persons of all abilities. Its mission is to promote self-sufficiency, inclusion, and independence for people with disabilities and rural youth through meaningful, paid employment and training in the business of growing and selling organic food and farm products. Left Foot Organics operates an organic market garden on about five acres, producing a variety of certified organic seasonal vegetables and flowers for sale in local markets.

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