On Saturday, February 28 at 2:00 p.m. EST, the Sisters of St. Benedict will host a concert in St. Gertrude Hall at Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, Indiana. Presented in collaboration with Indiana University, the concert will feature Amity Trio performing “Illuminating Apologues,” a song cycle containing six character studies on different animals and moments in the past.
In 2021, Maggie Polk Olivo’s started composing “Illuminating Apologues” for Amity Trio in collaboration with visual artist Haran Kim and poet Luba Winship. The project combines a love of music composition, collaborative art making, and programming with youth in mind. Commissioned by Amity Trio in 2021, the cycle is written for soprano, horn, and piano, with optional children’s choir, Orff xylophone, movement, and keyboard parts.
Amity Trio is a chamber ensemble for soprano, horn, and piano that was founded in 2018 to promote music by living composers through performing and teaching around the globe. Amity Trio’s mission is to contribute to a more equitable distribution of artistic voices on a global scale by performing music by underrepresented composers, for a variety of audience interests, locations, and socioeconomic strata.
The concert is free and open to the public, with a free will offering for those who want to give their support.
The Sisters of St. Benedict in Ferdinand make up one of the largest Benedictine communities of women in the United States — over 95 members strong and thriving. They seek God through the Benedictine tradition of community life, prayer, hospitality, and service to others.
By their life and work, they commit themselves to be a presence of peace as they join their sisters and brothers in the common search for God. Monastery Immaculate Conception was founded in 1867 by four young Benedictine sisters who came to Ferdinand to teach the children of area settlers. Since then, more than 1,000 women have entered this community. Their ministries extend both beyond education and beyond Ferdinand, with members of their community serving as teachers, social workers, parish ministers, counselors, nurses, youth ministers, chaplains, librarians, and more.
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