A few tickets remain for the matinee and evening concerts featuring selections from Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman's operas The Garden of Martyrs (2013) and The Scarlet Professor (2017). The operas dramatize searing events from Northampton's history: the 1806 execution of two Irish immigrants for a murder they likely didn't commit, and the 1960 arrest of a gay Smith College professor for possessing "indecent" materials. These special concerts will take place in the Shepherd Barn and include musical highlights from both of these works, heard for the first time since the operas' premieres, and sung by a group of extraordinary vocalists--Katherine Saik DeLugan, William Hite, Ann Moss, Keith Phares, and Alan Schneider. The music is vivid, lush, and soaring--and the issues are more relevant now than ever.