This is the first installment of our summer virtual project called, “Music From Our Own Backyard:” a series of online concerts with composers and arrangers from Binghamton.   Madrigal Choir member, Theresa Lee-Whiting, has set five Sandburg poems for voice and piano, which is performed by Christina Taylor, soprano, and Jean Herman Henssler, pianist.  Local actors George Tolokolnikov, Kara Smyk and Eric Repp portray characters in the videos.  Watch our premiere at 8:00 p.m. Aug. 31 on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgID-Df7eLo or on our FaceBook page – https://www.facebook.com/MadrigalChoir.