More on the Melopoeia Event at The 7 Gables

In the last post regarding the upcoming Melopoiea event on February 21st, we explored the rich biographies of the two featured poets who will be reciting their love poems. We also will be welcoming a classical guitarist and a vocalist who will be singing love ballads.

John R. Tavano is a teacher, composer and guitarist with a wide repertoire of styles ranging from Renaissance and Baroque to Flamenco as well as Contemporary. Tavano has several recording of his own music including "La Gitana" and "Avila" released in 2003 and 2007, respectively, as well as past performances of "Melopoiea" in 2009 with the poets who will be featured at The Gables' event.

Tavano has performed throughout New England and Europe as a member of the Boston Classical Guitar Society, staff musician at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and also as a member of The North Shore Musicians Association.

The vocalist we will be hearing, Ann Tucker, has been a featured soloist throughout the North Shore. She performs many classical pieces by Handel, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Bach and Mozart as well as Brazilian Bossa Nova, paying homage to her Brazilian roots. She has also worked with many musicians creating varied programs ranging from Spanish music all the way to songs from The Great American Songbook.

Tucker has studied voice with Dorothea Pliatska and Martha Peabody, and currently studies with opera tenor, Neal Ferreira. She received her BFA from Miami University of Ohio and studied music at the American University of Beirut, the University of Mexico and the Escola Panamericana de Arte in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

We cannot wait for this event and the beauty of song, poetry and music together.

Hope you can join us!

More on Melopoiea Event at The Gables

Melopoiea, quite simply put, is the making of lyric poems or music...

The event on February 21st from 7pm-9pm will feature two amazing poets, a classical guitar / mandolin accompanist as well as a vocalist, Ann Tucker, performing 18th century love ballads.


The celebrated poets are Rhina P. Espaillat and Alfred Nicol. Espaillat has an amazing career as a writer, and her bio reads like a book itself! Here are excerpts: 


"Espaillat has published poems, essays, short stories and translationg in numerous magazines and over fifty anthologies, in both English and her native Spanish, as well as three chapbooks and eight full-length books, including three in bilingual format..."


"Her honors include the Wilbur Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize in Poetry, the Robert Frost "Tree at my Window" Award for Translation, the May Sarton Award, a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award from Salem State College, and several prizes from the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Culture."


Needless to say, we are enthralled that she will be performing some of her works for us on the evening of the 21st.


Alfred Nicol, the second celebrated poet also has an impressive background. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, Dark Horse, First Things, Atlanta Review, Commonweal, The Formalist, The Hopkins Review and many other literary journals and anthologies.


His honors include "...the first Anita Dorn Memorial Prize, the Richard Wilbur Award, the Academy of American Poets Prize at Dartmouth, hwere he studed with Sydney Lea and Richard Eberhart, and participated in the fabled "Thursday Poets" Workshop...He is also a member of the Powow River Poets since 1999, ...and edited The Powow River Anthology, published in 2006.

More on our musicians and vocalist next week!

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Hope you can come to this amazing event!

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