BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Music Center's Season Guest Series offers Palaver Strings' Ready or Not CD Release Concert Thursday, June 2.
Palaver's latest album, Ready or Not, celebrates the groundbreaking visions of female composers from the Renaissance to the present day.
Joined by mezzo-soprano Sophie Michaux, Palaver will perform selections by Grazyna Bacewicz, Akenya Seymour, Elizabeth Moore, Barbara Strozzi, Connie Converse, Rebecca Clarke, Florence Price, and Nadia Boulanger.
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