One Blazing Glance November 13, 2007

Berklee College of Music, Our Bodies Ourselves, and the Simmons
Institute for Leadership and Change

Present “One Blazing Glance” – A Benefit Concert for Women’s Groups
Around the World Now Producing Translations, Adaptations of Our
Bodies, Ourselves

Simmons College, November 13, 6-9 pm

Boston, October 25, 2007 – Berklee College of Music, Our Bodies
Ourselves, and the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change
present One Blazing Glance. This benefit concert – featuring the
world premiere of Berklee professor Beth Denisch’s composition “One
Blazing Glance” – will celebrate the creativity and strengths of
women around the world, and help fund seven groups currently
producing cultural adaptations and translations of the groundbreaking
women’s health book Our Bodies, Ourselves.

This project emerged when Denisch, who wanted to create positive
music for woman performed by woman, began composing a piece
celebrating life-cycle events shared by women across cultures and
time, such as growing up, having children, falling in love, and
aging. The title, a line from one of the several poems that inspired
the piece, refers to the focus and vision women use to empower
themselves. Denisch worked with Our Bodies Ourselves (a.k.a. the
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective) to organize a benefit concert
that would help reach a larger community of women. And Simmons, which
offers the only undergraduate college for women in Boston, offered to
host the event.

“One Blazing Glance” will be performed by a Berklee faculty quintet
that includes Kathryn Wright (voice), Wendy Rolfe (flute), Felice
Pomeranz (harp), Melissa Howe (viola), and Winnie Dahlgren (marimba).

One Blazing Glance takes place on Tuesday, November 13, 6:00 p.m., at
the Linda K. Paresky Conference Center at Simmons College, 300 The
Fenway, Boston. For reservations ($30-100 suggested donation) or
more information, call Anne Sweeney, 617-451-3666 x10. Free
admission for Berklee and Simmons students. The event is wheelchair
accessible. Due to construction, parking is limited. For
alternative options, please visit the parking website: http://
my.simmons.edu/services/business/parking/off-campus.shtml