Godspell was the first major musical theatre offering from three-time Grammy and Academy Award® winner, Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Children of Eden), and it took the world by storm after opening on Broadway in 1971.

With help from his friends, Jesus Christ tells different parables by using a wide variety of games, storytelling techniques and a hefty doses of comic timing. An eclectic blend of songs is employed as the story of Jesus’ life dances across the stage.

Jesus’ message of kindness and love comes vibrantly to life in this revision from the hit 2011-2012 Broadway revival which masterfully injects the story with contemporary references and dazzling new music arrangements.

What’s a human? We are, at our core, social mammals. We build relationships, communicate, reproduce, establish territories, and adapt to shrinking resources. In these ways, we’re no different than other social mammals.

Chimpanzees, wolves, and gorillas are among the most charismatic of the mammals we know. We identify with them as species, groups, and even as named individuals. They’re also under threat. Join biologist-turned-photographer RONAN DONOVAN as he talks about his work in documenting these animals and what we, as fellow social mammals, can learn from them. RONAN DONOVAN is a born explorer. He inherited his sense of adventure and love of the natural world from his parents, who once sailed across the Atlantic. From his birth in rural Vermont in a cabin his father built, Ronan’s life has been a series of adventures. Ronan taught himself photography and filmmaking while working on a series of wildlife biology projects. In 2014, feeling he could make more of an impact through his visual storytelling than as a biologist, he turned to photography and filmmaking full time.

His photographic journeys for National Geographic include an entire year living inside Yellowstone National Park documenting the life of wild wolves, hiking volcanoes to photograph mountain gorillas and documenting the human-wildlife conflict between wild chimpanzees and humans in Africa. His film work has aired on PBS’s ”Nature” and on the BBC. He’s traveled to all seven continents, and in 2017 he was accepted into the Photo Society of National Geographic. His photographs have hung on the walls of the Natural History Museum in London and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington. His unique ability to tell the stories of the animals he focuses on elicits compassion in a relatable way and engages people for conservation. Photography allows him to give a voice to his subjects. Ronan now lives in Bozeman, Mont., where he loves to explore the Rocky Mountains. Photos: By Ronan Donovan.

Kasia Borowiec’s operatic and Saili Oak’s Hindustani voices meld gloriously in Reena Esmail’s “My Sister’s Voice,” “one of the most beautiful new pieces I have ever heard,” says Neal Gittleman, “and the reason this entire concert came together — a perfect convergence of East and West.” While many composers of Western classical music, like Mozart and Rameau, have looked to exotic lands for inspiration, Reena’s Indian musical roots let her look West and East as her composition about sisterhood soars to ecstatic heights. Strauss also had a way with the female voice, and never more gorgeously than in the finale of his opera Der Rosenkavalier. He captures its beauty in the Suite that crowns our concert with ravishing melodies and seductive waltzes that transport you to Vienna’s opulent golden age.