Relevant Tones Live: Overlooked No More

<p>The New York Times’<em> </em><strong>Overlooked</strong><em> </em>series<em> </em>was introduced on March 8, 2018 for International Women&#39;s Day, when they published fifteen obituaries of &quot;overlooked&quot; women, and has since become a hugely successful bi-weekly feature in the paper.</p> <p>As part Relevant Tones: Live, <strong>Access Contemporary Music</strong> has commissioned five composers to write musical portraits of the lives in the series, including surrealist painter and mystic <strong>Remedios Varo</strong>, singer-songwriter <strong>Judee Sill</strong>, journalist, teacher and political activist <strong>Jovita Idár,</strong> food inventor and war heroine <strong>Maria Orosa</strong> and the first African-American registered nurse in the United States, <strong>Mary Eliza Mahoney</strong>.</p> <p>Each new string quartet was performed live by <em>The Overlook,</em> and host <strong>Seth Boustead</strong> talked with special guests <strong>Amy Padnani</strong>, creator of the <em>Overlooked</em> series, filmmaker <strong>Vanessa Gould</strong> and obituary writer <strong>Jacques Kelley</strong> in between each performance. </p> <p>Live from Symphony Space in Manhattan.</p>