Event will feature world premiere of Beth Denisch's composition "One Blazing Glance."

October 25, 2007

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	Beth Denisch.
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Berklee, Our Bodies Ourselves, and the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change present One Blazing Glance. 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 producing cultural adaptations and translations of the groundbreaking women's health book Our Bodies, Ourselves.

This project emerged when Denisch, who wanted to create positive music for women performed by women, 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, the only undergraduate college for women in Boston, offered to host the event.

The composition "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).

One Blazing Glance 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 or more information, call Anne Sweeney, 617 451-3666, extension 10. $30-$100 suggested donation; free admission for Berklee and Simmons students. The event is wheelchair accessible. Due to construction, parking is limited.

For alternative options, visit the parking website: my.simmons.edu/services/business/parking/off-campus.shtml.

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