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Mind on Fire presents an evening of music and poetry with Michael Hersch and Shane McCrae.

This event is a fundraiser in support of Michael Hersch's newest opera: And We, Each

This opera, the follow up to the internationally acclaimed POPPAEA, will be premiered here in Baltimore this September 28 & 29.

Also featuring baltimore musicians Daoure Diongue, Ruby Fulton, and Jeremy Lyons

Come on out and enjoy complimentary drinks and hors d'ouervres in the historic Mount Vernon Club.

See you there! 

On Michael Hersch - who will be playing piano

described by The New York Times as “viscerally gripping and emotionally transformative music ... claustrophobic and exhilarating at once, with moments of sublime beauty nestled inside thickets of dark virtuosity,” is widely considered among the most gifted composers of his generation.

On Shane McCrae - who will be reading poetry

characterized as “ingenious ... where the dignity of English meter meets, as in a mosh pit, the vitality - and often the brutality - of American speech.” (The New Yorker); “...dangerous” (The New York Times); a poet whose work “isn’t easy to shake” (Publisher’s Weekly); a poet who confronts the challenging “facts of the world, head-on — while... transposing the literal into the otherworldly.” (Los Angeles Review of Books).

More information on And We, Each: https://www.mindonfire.org/weblog/2023/7/30/michael-herschs-new-opera-and-we-each-after-texts-by-shane-mccrae-will-receive-its-world-premiere-in-baltimore-in-2024