Redemption Center
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The Redemption Center – Choral Reading 

Join composer Glenn McClure and director Brian Stevens for a choral reading of Glenn’s new opera The Redemption Center: Sometimes You Get More than 5 Cents. This developing project takes on the paralysis and pessimism of climate anxiety with a romping gospel/jazz musical score. It explores the big questions about how we see our relationship to the natural world. The…

Redemption Center
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Environmental Redemption in the Arts and Humanities

One of the greatest joys of teaching at Paul Smith’s College over the last few years has been to learn my way through the emerging field of Environmental Humanities. Many of you know how much authors like Dante, Chaucer, Galileo, Shelly, Dario, and more have molded and shaped my musical life. The increasing urgency of…

St Francis in America's Finger Lakes Choral Festival
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Concert 7/28 features Glenn McClure’s St. Francis in Americas: A Caribbean Mass

The Finger Lakes Choral Festival presents “Misa Criolla,” by Ariel Ramirez, and “St Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass,” by Glenn McClure, Sunday, July 28, 2024, 4:00 P.M. at the Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 Plymouth Avenue North, Rochester, NY, 14614. The performance is free of charge. Donations of food, clothing, and personal care items…