Juventas New Music Ensemble begins their nature-themed 2023-24 Mainstage Season “Visions of Green” with Song in Flight on September 23 at 8 pm at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge and online via YouTube live broadcast. The concert features the works of living composers Oliver Caplan, Joshua Shank, Christina Rusnak, Beth Ratay, Angus Davison, Mari Kotskyy, and Libby Meyer. The evening also includes a 6:30 pm pre-concert talk, moderated by musicologist Karen Ruyamnn, and a post-concert Meet the Artists reception.

Juventas’ 2023-24 mainstage season centers on appreciating and advocating for the natural world. Each piece on the Song in Flight program takes inspiration from the wonders of avian life. The concert’s centerpiece is a world premiere by Mari Kotskyy, commissioned by Juventas. Entitled, The Birds Suite, the piece sets three poems by Christina Rossetti. Flocking Music by Shank, Nigel by Davison, and The Flamingos by Ratay are winners of Juventas’s 2023 Call for Scores, an open opportunity for composers worldwide to land their music on Juventas’s stage.