The Windham Philharmonic Presents: VOICELESS MASS

The Windham Philharmonic, in collaboration with Epsilon Spires presents Voiceless Mass: A Concert of Protest, Memory, and Belonging on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 13, 2025, 7pm— An evening where music speaks as protest, as reckoning, as survival featuring works by Raven Chacon, Kirsten C. Kunkle, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Julius Eastman, and Joseph Haydn.

Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass, a Pulitzer prize-winning work composed for organ and a large ensemble of flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion, strings and electronics, the piece explores the deliberate silencing of voices within colonial and institutional frameworks. The performance highlights the complicity of the Catholic Church in the suppression of Indigenous voices, abduction and abuse of Indigenous children in residential schools in the Americas.

"This work considers the spaces in which we gather, the history of access of these spaces, and the land upon which these buildings sit. Though ‘mass’ is referenced in the title, the piece…