Walking the Farm: a Progressive Concert

Kirsten Broberg, George Lewis, David Shapiro, Peteris Vasks

Saturday and Sunday, September 17th and 18th @ 4pm

hosted by Art at Kings Oaks at Kings Oaks Farm, near Newtown in Bucks County, PA

**Please note: there will be no walk-up tickets available at the concert. All tickets must be purchased in advance**

We suggest casual clothes, layers, and hiking shoes for this event in which we’ll walk around the farm together. (Please contact shannon@crossingchoir.org for special circumstances requiring onsite shuttling.)

We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn.
A red wing rose in the darkness.
O my love, where are they, where are they going
The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles.
I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder.

– Czeslaw Milosz, “Encounter: We were riding through frozen fields,” in Peteris Vasks’ Three poems by Czeslaw Milosz

Our season opens and closes on a farm in Bucks County.

History and culture; land use, possession, and repossession; food, its source, and the unnamed people who grow it and move it using the oft misunderstood phrase "farm to table."

Based on the "progressive dinner" model, this concert takes us to five stations around bucolic Kings Oaks Farm: the barn, the creek, the old chapel, the field, the garden. At each, we commune, sharing locally sourced bites, local beers and wines, and a choral work inspired by land and our relationship to it. A new work from George Lewis is joined by previous commissions of Kirsten Broberg and David Shapiro and a thoughtful setting of a Czeslaw Milosz poem by Latvian Peteris Vasks.

Art at Kings Oaks Exhibition—September 23 through October 9
Art at Kings Oaks presents its 8th annual exhibition reimagining the historic barn and chapel as unique settings for local, national, and international art to inhabit. Curated by Bucks County painter Alex Cohen and theatre artist Clara Weishahn, the exhibition will preview during our Progressive Concert, and is open to the public the two following weeks. www.kingsoaksart.com

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Photo: Spanish farmland