One Blazing Glance

Presented by Berklee College of Music, Our Bodies Ourselves, and the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change

A benefit concert for women’s groups around the world now producing translations and cultural adaptations of Our Bodies, Ourselves

Simmons College, November 13, 6-9pm

This benefit concert – featuring the world premiere of Berklee professor Beth Denisch’s composition “One Blazing Glance” – will celebrate the creativity and strengths of women around the world, and help fund seven groups currently producing cultural adaptations and translations of the groundbreaking women’s health book Our Bodies, Ourselves.
This project emerged when Denisch began composing a piece celebrating life-cycle events shared by women across cultures and time, such as growing up, having children, falling in love, and aging.  The title, a line from one of the several poems that inspired the piece, refers to the focus and vision women use to empower themselves.  Denisch worked with Our Bodies Ourselves (a.k.a. the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective) to organize a benefit concert that would help reach a larger community of women. And Simmons, which offers the only undergraduate college for women in Boston, offered to host the event.

One Blazing Glance will be performed by a Berklee faculty quintet that includes Kathryn Wright (voice), Wendy Rolfe (flute), Felice Pomeranz (harp), Melissa Howe (viola), and Winnie Dahlgren (marimba). The co-sponsors would also like to acknowledge the support of the Open Meadows Foundation (Patsy Lu Fund for Women’s Music Projects).

The performance takes place on Tuesday, November 13, 6:00 p.m., at the Linda K. Paresky Conference Center at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston.  For reservations ($30-100 suggested donation) or more information, call Anne Sweeney, 617-451-3666 x10.  Free admission for Simmons and Berklee students, but reservations must be called in, as space is limited. The event is wheelchair accessible.  Due to construction, parking is limited.  For alternative options, please visit the parking website: http://my.simmons.edu/services/business/parking/off-campus.shtml.