The Street: A Good Friday Meditation

Enrich this season of reverence and contemplation with an afternoon of moving musical works, featuring guest harpist Parker Ramsay Enrich this season of reverence and contemplation with an afternoon of moving musical works. At the heart of this performance is The Street, a dramatic, contemporary exploration of the Fourteen Stations of the Cross, accompanied by narration and plainchant, focusing on the emotional journey of the crucifixion with libretto by Alice Goodman and the music by Nico Muhly. The performance will feature guest harpist Parker Ramsay; vocal soloists George Case, Alfredo Beltrán, and Edmund Connolly; and the Cathedral’s Dean and Rector, The Very Rev’d Kristina Ann Maulden will serve as narrator. Parker Ramsay has forged a career defying easy categorization. Equally at home on modern and period harps, he pursues his passions in tackling new and underperformed works and bringing his instrument to new audiences. Recent and upcoming performances include solo performances at Alice Tully Hall, the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, the Phillips Collection, Cal Performances, Shriver Hall, IRCAM, King’s College, Cambridge, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. He has collaborated with ensembles such Mark Morris Dance Group, Latitude 49, Apollo’s Fire, the Van Kuijk Quartet and has undertaken residencies at the University of California, San Diego, Princeton University and IRCAM.