Evan Mack

The entire piano-vocal score of the acclaimed opera, Angel of the Amazon by Evan Mack. In 2005, Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, from Dayton, Ohio was brutally murderedin the town of Boa Esperanza, located in the Brazilian rainforest. Paid by the owner of a logging company, two gunmen shot Dorothy six times as she read the Beatitudes. Angel of the Amazon depicts her life's work, her devotion to her mission with Brazilian peasant farmers, and the events that sent her on a path of martyrdom.

The Secret Ocean is a musical setting of three poems by Mark Jarman. This intricate work describes childhood, parenthood and the link between them. The 13-minute cycle for soprano and piano is graceful and nostalgic with climactic flourishes throughout.