See Transcend This weekend!
There are TWO chances to see TRANScend’s singers in action this weekend, and we’d love to you have you in the audience!
The Queer Agenda: A Cabaret of Untold Stories
Saturday 10/4 | 7:30 PM | St John’s in the Village
Presented by TRANScend Choral & Community Music Foundation with partial support from The Heritage of Pride Foundation, Drs. Felix Graham and Christopher Cayari, with John Urban on piano, will lead a program of queer story-telling through musical theater, classical and pop/blues songs.
Original compositions (You'll get a sneak listen to new songs from The Passion of Miss de Marco, Unemployed Stenographer -- a brand new lesbian true crime musical!), Sara Bareilles, Sapphic love songs and Shrek, oh my! Featuring guest performances by Jae Carelli, Caitlyn Duer, Mika Kaufman, Hannah Cai Sobel & Freddy Vaccaro. Come join us for a fun night of Sex Appeal, religious fervor...and Dear Evan Hanson.
Planet of the Micro-Operas by Granite Planet
Saturday, October 4th @ 3pm
| Tuesday, October 7th @ 7pm |
Saturday, October 11th @ 3pm
Presented by our friends at Granite Planet and music directed by our Community Chorale director, Hannah Cai Sobel, come join us for PLANET OF THE MICR-OPERAS!
Back by Popular Demand-- Three Operas for the Price of One! In PLANET OF THE MICRO-OPERAS, join us on an odyssey through space, time, and emotion with three world premiere micro-operas!
Discover the inner workings of nature's beasts and their human caretakers in ""THE HIPPO; or, QUESTIONS of LOVE and MATING in MODERN CULTURE...""
Return with us to ancient Greece in ""CLYDEMNESTRA""-- a tale of tragedy and transformation.
Finally, ""THE TRIPLE FOOL"" will dare you to look inward and realize your true feelings around your ex. (Yes, yours!) (YES, THAT ONE!)
Later this fall…
The Passion of Miss de Marco, Unemployed Stenographer
This November, TRANScend Community Chorale & Music Foundation will premiere its first original Musical! Written & Composed by our founder Dr. Felix Graham, The Passion of Miss de Marco, Unemployed Stenographer is a tribute to the queer history of NYC and queer ancestors history forgot - or just got wrong!
The narrative is based on the actual news coverage of Norma de Marco, a young, queer woman in 1930s New York and her brush with media fame before her untimely death.
A modern take on the Greek chorus, reading actual headlines and news articles about the events as they unfolded, propels the story, interspersed scenes from the last three months of Norma’s life. Based on historical documentation from her life, the show follows her introduction to the queer scene by her uptown girlfriend, a robbery and its aftermath, plus the media debacle that followed her untimely death.
Structured as a queer lives-of-the-saints style play, Norma is ultimately a reflection on how well we can ever truly know a historical figure from outside sources, and questions what we actually know about queer icons from the past and their lives.