Ode to the White Mountains

Writer Howard Mansfield and composer Ben Cosgrove will be executing A Journey to the White Mountains in Words and Audio at the Capitol Middle for the Arts on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $24 and readily available on the internet at ccanh.com.

The clearly show is about how the discovery of the White Mountains has an effect on us to this day.

“Pioneering artists in the 19th century taught Us citizens how to look at the wilderness,” claimed Mansfield. “Americans had been eager for the lesson, and, with guidebook in hand telling them in which to see the views in the well known paintings, they followed the artists. Their art established a sector for the views, stuffed resorts with tourists, and laid the bounds for nationwide parks across the nation. Today’s travellers to the White Mountains may possibly not know it, but they’ve arrive in search of an Eden created by a legion of nineteenth-century landscape painters.”

The Journey to the White Mountains clearly show is based mostly on a chapter from Howard Mansfield’s modern reserve Chasing Eden: A Guide of Seekers and Ben Cosgrove’s landscape-motivated new music.

Mansfield and Cosgrove have been adhering to each individual other’s get the job done for a long time.

“When I first heard Ben Cosgrove’s new music, it produced instant, psychological sense. In his audio I hear the restlessness of America and the wide get to of the place,” stated Mansfield

“I’ve been examining Howard Mansfield’s textbooks for decades, some of them more than and around,” reported Cosgrove. “He’s able to generate about neighborhood background and feeling of put in a thoughtful, conversational way that in some way feels both equally deeply personal and ringingly universal.”

Noticing that they just about every experienced been discovering really similar themes and thoughts, they decided to combine phrases and new music for a joint overall performance.

Mansfield writes about record, architecture, and preservation. He sifts through the commonplace and the neglected to find out tales that convey to us about ourselves and our place in the planet. Mansfield is the creator of a dozen guides, such as Chasing Eden, The Bones of the Earth, The Identical Ax, Two times, Dwelling in Chance: Exploring for the Soul of Shelter, and In the Memory Dwelling, which The New York Times stated is “a smart and lovely e book.”

Cosgrove is a traveling composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist from New England. He travels constantly – he’s played so much in 48 out of 50 states – writing and executing music that explores the themes of landscape, place, and surroundings. He has collaborated with artists ranging from Palaver Strings to Ghost of Paul Revere, and held artist residencies and fellowships with institutions which include the Nationwide Park Service, the Nationwide Forest Services, Harvard College, Middlebury College or university, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the Appalachian Mountain Club, and the Sitka Middle for Art & Ecology. His nonfiction has appeared in Orion, Taproot, Northern Woodlands, Appalachia, and other publications.

Cosgrove’s fourth studio album, The Hassle with Wilderness, an evocation of a variety of expressions of character and wildness inside the constructed ecosystem, was unveiled in all formats earlier this 12 months.