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Friends and music lovers, Save the date: October 29 at 7pm for an evening of duets and a very special screening, brought to you by yours truly and Audrey Pirog. I’m very excited to share the video of the world premiere of my song cycle, Body, performed by One Equall...

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“Body” World Premiere, Montréal, Directed by Rona Nadler

https://rebeccamackmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Body-Twilight-vespera-clip.mp4 New Choral Work: BODY “Body” is a cycle of six songs for voices, cello and harp, with original poetry in Latin and English illustrating the life and death of biodiversity,...

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creative process: composing “Body”

Hello again! I'm emerging from a nourishing year of composing the song cycle, "Body." The songs are concerned with the impermanence of our physical, human bodies (in my own body by the sudden, long-term disabling event of PASC or Long Covid*) and with the impermanence...

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Composing a new song cycle, “Body”

I am deeply honored to receive the Vermont Arts Council's Creation Grant award for FY2023 for the composition of a large choral work. “Body” is a song cycle, with poetry illustrating the life and death of biodiversity, impermanence and liminal spaces, rooted in the...

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Allow me to introduce myself.

Greetings and thank you for visiting my website! Allow me to introduce myself. Some of you may know me primarily as a musician, some as a visual artist, or if you’ve known me well, as both. In truth, I have been practicing both music and visual art since childhood and...

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