Marshunda Smith, Conductor & Cellist

IX: Who Pays for the Tradition to Continue?

https://open.substack.com/pub/suorang3lica/p/who-pays-for-the-tradition-to-continue?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1faxqd

The Secret World

Do cellists hang out after orchestra concerts? Yes!! And that's exactly how this concert was born.

Nine musicians who met in rehearsal rooms, green rooms, and parking lots after late performances, who sized each other up, formed opinions, and eventually said: *let's make something together.*

On April 4th, you find out what happened next.
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Something is happening on April 4th.

Nine cellists. Nine first impressions. One afternoon that doesn't repeat itself.

Before the first note, you'll hear how we found each other — the moments that made each of us say yes to this concert, to this room, to each other. 

You're invited into the story.

  🎻 Impressions!

  📅 April 4, 2026 at 3pm
  📍 Danvers MA
  🎟️  Reserve your seat — link in bio
  $10 at the door | online purchase available

Set in Lowell, this joyful journey follows Soma, a q***r Cambodian American teenager, finding her voice and stepping into her legacy. When Soma posts a video performing her own poetry about the struggles she’s facing including her father’s deportation, it quickly goes viral. Now, Lowell High School’s spoken word contest approaches, and Soma must decide if she’s brave enough to step up to the mic. Told with humor, heart-forward characters, and culminating in the biggest Khmer cultural event of the season,

Kween explores all the ways we author our path home.

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What does music do between words that won't let you look away?

It gives you room to feel them.

Join us February 28 as Cherry Hill Chamber Orchestra performs original music by Charles Turner, woven throughout a community reading of Frederick Douglass' "What to the slave Is the Fourth of July?"

- presented by and NSUUC

February 28 | NSUUC, Danvers
Reserve your free seat, space is limited.
🎟 Ticket info in profile

Four dead composers walked into a dance hall and wrote us letters. From 1903. And 1927. And possibly from beyond the grave.

We're reading them out loud - and then dancing to the music they left behind. 💃🏿

Join the Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra and on March 7 as we perform music by Teresa Carreño, Vaughan-Williams, Hubert Parry and Percy Graiger - with letters to the Society for the Preservation of Living Dances, live dancing, and maybe a few moves from you too!

"A Place Kept for an Honored Guest"
March 7 | Chelmsford Senior Center

Music from Venezuela to the U.K.
NSquared Dance Company shows us how to move with and between each piece!

Come join us for a community dance!

Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra Presents: LPO March 2026 Concert: A Place Kept for An Honored Guest Tickets are available now! Dates: Sat. March 7th 2026, 2:00 pm

What closes the moment tradition is invoked?

https://open.substack.com/pub/suorang3lica/p/iv-after-the-word-is-spoken?r=1faxqd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Check out my third essay in my series
https://suorang3lica.substack.com/p/iii-stewardship-is-a-choice?r=1faxqd

Another winning concert!! 👏🏿

16 tickets left!!!!!
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