Relevant Tones Live: Overlooked No More

The New York
Times’ Overlooked series was
introduced on March 8, 2018 for International Women's Day, when
they published fifteen obituaries of "overlooked" women, and has
since become a hugely successful bi-weekly feature in the paper.


As part Relevant Tones: Live, Access Contemporary
Music has commissioned five composers to write
musical portraits of the lives in the series, including
surrealist painter and mystic Remedios
Varo, singer-songwriter Judee
Sill, journalist, teacher and political
activist Jovita Idár, food inventor
and war heroine Maria Orosa and the
first African-American registered nurse in the United
States, Mary Eliza Mahoney.


Each new string quartet was performed live
by The Overlook, and host Seth
Boustead talked with special
guests Amy Padnani, creator of
the Overlooked series, filmmaker Vanessa
Gould and obituary writer Jacques
Kelley in between each performance.


Live from Symphony Space in Manhattan.