Lifetime: Songs of Life and Evolution

The North Cambridge Family Opera participated in the first ever, city-wide Cambridge Science Festival. The North Cambridge Family Opera Company's newly formed Festival Chorus performed the American premiere of Lifetime: Songs of Life and Evolution by contemporary English composer David Haines (creator of The Puzzle Jigs, which we performed in 2003).

• Saturday, 21 April 2007, at MIT Kresge Auditorium
• Friday, 27 April 2007, at Morse School Auditorium
• Sunday, 29 April 2007, at Peabody School Auditorium

Lifetime is a 90-minute oratorio (a choral work which tells a story) informs and excites its participants and audiences about the story of life and evolution, a critical area of science through song. Each song in the Lifetime repertoire addresses a distinct subject area along the timeline of evolution:

• Birth Celebrates Earth's transition from dead rock to living planet.
• Lake Explores one means of creation of biodiversity through temporary isolation of fish populations.
• Taxonomy A musical exploration of classification of life forms.
• Amoeba A spiky, jazzy, witty ditty from an Amoeba's view of the world.
• Four Billon Years A moving plea for humans to take care of Earth and its life-forms.

Cambridge Science Festival Partners include MIT, Harvard University, the Boston Museum of Science, WGBH Boston, Cambridge City Council, Cambridge Public Schools and Cambridge Public Library.

Funding for the Family Opera's performance of Lifetime has been provided in part by: