In partnership with Third Angle New Music and the Reed religion department, the Reed music department presents Elderflora by Majel Connery. 

Elderflora ("old trees") is told from the perspective of the tree itself and conjures a world where trees can talk to us. From birth by fire to death by lightning, we follow this ancient being’s inner thoughts and feelings in hyperreal detail.

Doors open at 7 p.m.
Show at 7:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public and all ages. 

About the Artist

Majel Connery is a composer, performer, and musicologist. Her voice has been called “superb” by the New York Times and her music “thoroughly Schubertian” by the Wall Street Journal. Connery’s work has appeared on Radiolab, Kennedy Center Live, and New Sounds radio. The Rivers are our Brothers, Connery’s first song cycle on ecological responsibility, has been performed around the U.S. and abroad, including Connery’s own recent tour with Bowerbird Collective to Carmel Bach Festival, and with Grammy-winning choir Chanticleer in a version for 12-part male choir. Connery has taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Wellesley and Princeton, and is a current teaching artist with Musicambia, teaching songwriting at Bedford Hills maximum security women’s prison. She is the host and producer of two podcasts, A Music of Their Own, on NPR, and Reverberations, with New Amsterdam Records. Connery holds an A.B. in music from Princeton and a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Chicago.