Life is fast-paced right now. Between stage directing and keeping up with my composition projects, Juventas, OperaHub, Boston Arts Academy AND Cecilia - well, I feel a bit overwhelmed. Overwhelmed in a good way. I feel lucky to be working on so many amazing artistic projects. Can you believe it!?! I just wish there were a few more hours in the day, or maybe I could develop super powers like Evie from Out of This World. I'll just touch my two pointer fingers together, freeze time, and take however long I please doing whatever strikes my fancy. Ah! Such a nice fantasy...
Side note - do you think I would age during this frozen time? That could be a problem.
To begin, here is a review of A Protest received from the Boston Musical Intelligencer back in March of 2009:
Eight Commissioned Works for Women’s Vocal Ensemble Take on Social Protest by Liane Curtis
Erin Huelskamp’s A Protest proved the most memorable and startlingly revelatory work of the evening. Her choice was a Victorian-era poem by Arthur Hugh Clough. The anxiety expressed by a woman who rises to speak her opinion before a hostile assembly unfolds haltingly and in overlapping waves of forward motion, then hesitation. Speech-like declamations spar with sung comments, electrifying the psychological battle. This is the piece I most want to hear again, to parse and savor the interplay of interjections, questions and responses.
Anthology Voices commissioned A Protest in 2008 and premiered it in March 2009. Anthology is an amazing performing force; thus, I have a killer recording of the piece. I plan to post said recording to the "Listen" section of my site soon, so check back or join my mailing list.
