"I opened a window and daylight fell on my cheek. I fell to my knees, immobile, and wept... I looked at the sea's horizon, and saw the world ..."
-Utnapishtim from the epic of Gilgamesh
After a storm so violent it kills the world and frightens the gods, Utnapishtim sees what remains. Everything he sees is a new and empty world that Gerard Grisey attempts to realize in his piece Four Songs To Cross the Threshold. After Everything presents a concert which explores the themes of death and transition in this piece and others in the program. Death from a place of anxiety, a place of love, and a place of sympathy; from the deeply personal death of a friend, to the powerful loss of an influential but unknown figure, to the tragic, long-terms disappearances and deaths of civilizations, languages, and worlds.
Program:
J.S. Bach BWV 60 O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort ("Oh Eternity, You Word of Thunder")
Du Yun, An Empty Garlic, on text by Rumi
Ambrose Akinmusire, The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits
Gerard Grisey, Four Songs To Cross the Threshold
Ann Moss, Soprano
Jessie Nucho, Flute
Matthew Cmiel, Conductor
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-Utnapishtim from the epic of Gilgamesh
After a storm so violent it kills the world and frightens the gods, Utnapishtim sees what remains. Everything he sees is a new and empty world that Gerard Grisey attempts to realize in his piece Four Songs To Cross the Threshold. After Everything presents a concert which explores the themes of death and transition in this piece and others in the program. Death from a place of anxiety, a place of love, and a place of sympathy; from the deeply personal death of a friend, to the powerful loss of an influential but unknown figure, to the tragic, long-terms disappearances and deaths of civilizations, languages, and worlds.
Program:
J.S. Bach BWV 60 O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort ("Oh Eternity, You Word of Thunder")
Du Yun, An Empty Garlic, on text by Rumi
Ambrose Akinmusire, The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits
Gerard Grisey, Four Songs To Cross the Threshold
Ann Moss, Soprano
Jessie Nucho, Flute
Matthew Cmiel, Conductor
"I opened a window and daylight fell on my cheek. I fell to my knees, immobile, and wept... I looked at the sea's horizon, and saw the world ..."
-Utnapishtim from the epic of Gilgamesh
After a storm so violent it kills the world and frightens the gods, Utnapishtim sees what remains. Everything he sees is a new and empty world that Gerard Grisey attempts to realize in his piece Four Songs To Cross the Threshold. After Everything presents a concert which explores the themes of death and transition in this piece and others in the program. Death from a place of anxiety, a place of love, and a place of sympathy; from the deeply personal death of a friend, to the powerful loss of an influential but unknown figure, to the tragic, long-terms disappearances and deaths of civilizations, languages, and worlds.
Program:
J.S. Bach BWV 60 O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort ("Oh Eternity, You Word of Thunder")
Du Yun, An Empty Garlic, on text by Rumi
Ambrose Akinmusire, The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits
Gerard Grisey, Four Songs To Cross the Threshold
Ann Moss, Soprano
Jessie Nucho, Flute
Matthew Cmiel, Conductor
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-Utnapishtim from the epic of Gilgamesh
After a storm so violent it kills the world and frightens the gods, Utnapishtim sees what remains. Everything he sees is a new and empty world that Gerard Grisey attempts to realize in his piece Four Songs To Cross the Threshold. After Everything presents a concert which explores the themes of death and transition in this piece and others in the program. Death from a place of anxiety, a place of love, and a place of sympathy; from the deeply personal death of a friend, to the powerful loss of an influential but unknown figure, to the tragic, long-terms disappearances and deaths of civilizations, languages, and worlds.
Program:
J.S. Bach BWV 60 O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort ("Oh Eternity, You Word of Thunder")
Du Yun, An Empty Garlic, on text by Rumi
Ambrose Akinmusire, The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits
Gerard Grisey, Four Songs To Cross the Threshold
Ann Moss, Soprano
Jessie Nucho, Flute
Matthew Cmiel, Conductor
show less
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