Are You Alive, Djuna? The Village Trip & Cutting Edge Concerts

above: Victoria Bond, composer and Director of Cutting Edge Concerts

September 24, 2025
7pm

At Salmagundi Arts Club
47 5th Avenue

$25 advance sales
$30 at the door

Cutting Edge Concerts
in cooperation with The Coffee House Club at Salmagundi

–Are You Alive, Djuna?! –

The formidable poet Djuna Barnes lived on Patchin Place in Greenwich Village and her time there overlapped with ee cummings’ stay there. The story goes that cummings would poke his head into the stairwell of Djuna’s building and shout, “Are you alive, Djuna?!” Cummings was only 2 years younger than Djuna, who survived him by 20 years. Barnes knew Joyce when she was in Paris between the wars. Joyce gifted her an annotated manuscript of Ulysses, inscribed, “To djuna Barnes, James Joyce, Paris 16 February, 1922”.

Nehemiah Luckett’s Baldwin Settings were commissioned for The Village Trip for the Baldwin Centenary.

Victoria Bond is a Renaissance woman – at various timesa in her career she flourished as a singer, a conductor, a composer, and producer.

William Kentner Anderson: Djuna Barnes Settings
–featuring soprano Sharon Harms

Laura Schwendinger: ee cummings settings
–featuring soprano Zoe Allen and pianist Christopher Allen

Victoria Bond: Leopold Blooms’ Homecoming
–featuring baritone Michael Kelly and pianist John Arida

Nehemiah Luckett: Oceans Always Lead to Some Great Good Place
Inspired by James Baldwin’s Another Country
–featuring Nehemiah Luckett, baritone; William Anderson, guitar; Joan Forsyth, piano

poets Djuna Barnes, ee cummings, James Baldwin, James Joyce
composers Laura Schwendinger, Nehemiah Luckett, Victoria Bond, Wm. Anderson
baritones Michael Kelly and Nehemiah Luckett
sopranos Zoe Allen and Sharon Harms
pianists John Arida, Joan Forsyth, and Christopher Allen
Cutting Edge Concerts