Join us - virtually Available from March 16 onward: Join Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma for the premiere of "Songs for the Spring of Waiting" , reflections and actions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Find the posting at www.YouTube.com/classicaltuesdays Join Tacoma Poet laureate emerita <https://josieturnerpoet.com/about/> Josie Emmons Turner and composer <https://sites.google.com/a/plu.edu/gregory-youtz-composer/> Gregory Youtz as they discuss and then premiere "Songs for the Spring of Waiting." Josie's response to the pandemic shutdown a year ago was an explosion of poems that ranged from gardening to students to thinking about the poet Walt Whitman and his response to crisis. Greg's response to the poems was to set them to music as documents of this unique time. Soprano <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyndia_Sieden> CyndiaSieden, mezzo-soprano <https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2017/10/16/from-pre-med-to-classical-singer- new-faculty-member-soon-chos-positive-impact-on-the-plu-music-department/> Soon Cho and pianist <https://www.plu.edu/music/staff/oksana-ezhokina/> Oksana Ezhokina will premiere the five songs in a way that is also a document of these times- socially distanced and online! https://www.youtube.com/classicaltuesdays Pamela Butler Ryker prryker@gmail.com <mailto:prryker@gmail.com> , 253-752-2135 https://classicaltuesdays.blogspot.com <https://classicaltuesdays.blogspot.com/>