Victoria Bond at The Village Trip
Wonderful, Wild Music in New York
By: Susan Hall - Sep 19, 2025
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 7 pm
The Village Trip and Cutting Edge Concerts in cooperation with The Coffee House Club at the Salmagundi Club present:
Poets of Patchin Place: Musical Settings of Greenwich Village Poets
The Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Avenue
Djuna Barnes, artist, illustrator, journalist, and author, best known for Nightwood (1936), a classic of lesbian fiction, lived for 40 years on Patchin Place where her neighbors included ee cummings. The story goes that the poet would poke his head into the stairwell of the reclusive Djuna’s building and shout: “Are you alive, Djuna?” Barnes knew James Joyce when she was in Paris between the wars and he gifted her an annotated manuscript of Ulysses.
Poets of Patchin Place features the première of settings of Barnes’ poetry by William Kentner Anderson, sung by soprano Sharon Harms. Also on the program: Victoria Bond: “Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming” from Ulysses by James Joyce, featuring baritone Michael Kelly and pianist John Arida; Nehemiah Luckett: “Oceans Always Lead to Some Great Good Place,” inspired by James Baldwin’s Another Country and commissioned by The Village Trip for Baldwin’s centennial, featuring Nehemiah Luckett, baritone, William Anderson, guitar, and Joan Forsyth, piano; and settings of ee cummings by Laura Schwendinger, featuring soprano Zoe Allen, and pianist Christopher Allen.
A major force in 21st century music, composer Victoria Bond is known for her melodic gift and dramatic flair. Her works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and opera have been lauded by The New York Times as "powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding." Her compositions have been performed by the New York City Opera, Shanghai, Dallas and Houston Symphonies, members of the Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater and the Cassatt and Audubon Quartets. Ms. Bond is also an acclaimed conductor, and is the principal guest conductor of Chamber Opera Chicago, and has held conducting positions with Pittsburgh Symphony, New York City Opera, Roanoke Symphony, and Bel Canto and Harrisburg Operas
Program
William Kentner Anderson: Djuna Barnes Settings
Performers: soprano Sharon Harms, guitarist William Kentner Anderson, pianist Joan Forsyth, harpist June Han
Victoria Bond: Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming
Set to texts from James Joyce's Ulysses
Performers: baritone Michael Kelly, pianist John Arida
Laura Schwendinger: Chansons Innocentes
Set to poems by ee cummings
Performers: soprano Zoe Allen, pianist Christopher Allen
Nehemiah Luckett: Oceans Always Lead to Some Great Good Place*
Inspired by James Baldwin’s Another Country
Performers: baritone Nehemiah Luckett, guitarist William Kentner Anderson, pianist Joan Forsyth
*Commissioned by The Village Trip for the James Baldwin centennial
Tickets at https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/poets-of-patchin-place/
September 20, 2 pm: Classical Cool! Kids Concert hosted by Nina Bernstein Simmons
St. John’s in the Village (218 W 11th St)
Classical Cool! celebrates the legacy of Leonard Bernstein and the 150th Anniversary of the Music Teachers National Association in this nod to the legendary conductor’s “Young Peoples Concerts.” Bernstein's daughter Nina will narrate a children’s favorite, Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” with the Going the Distance Players conducted by Victoria Bond and a roster of MTNA’s leading pianists.
Part of The Village Trip’s Leonard Bernstein Weekend.
There is a free September 21, 3 pm: Looking East
Balinese Gamelan Yowana Sari & Friends
Portico outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (2nd Ave and E 10 St)
The Balinese gamelan ensemble Gamelan Yowana Sari performs with guitarists Kyle Miller and Jack Lynch.