Nov 21, 2025
by Sarah Godcher Murphy.
With her new composition Time to Act, Boston Conservatory professor Laura Kaminsky(Opens in a new window) doesn’t just give voice to tough questions about school shootings in America, she sets them to music on an operatic scale. With librettist Crystal Manich(Opens in a new window), Kaminsky has created a vehicle that suits the enormity—and complexity—of the crisis, expressing the fear and grief wrought by gun violence, while asserting art’s unifying power.