MoM 1: 'mid the steep sky's commotion
a world premiere from Joshua Stamper
Join us this Sunday at 4pm for the first concert of The Month of Moderns 2017!

'mid the steep sky's commotion is the second chapter of Joshua Stamper's four-part  Elements series, exploring the enigmatic and impenetrable quality of wind, its singular and intimate relationship to the detritus of a city, and the ways in which that detritus exists as an echo of the movements, relationships, and dreams of the city of Philadelphia. Joshua Stamper's unique, colorful, evolving music captures 'what the wind says' in this first collaboration with The Crossing.

Wind is the epitome of mystery: it is a force of both destruction and preservation; its origins are inscrutable and its destination is unknown. Its presence echoes through our poems and dreams, yet its patterns and path remain impenetrable-invisible save for its effect on the world around it.

- Joshua Stamper

with music of Eriks Esenvalds and Klaus Sandvik,
especially chosen for the cathedral-like acoustic of the Icebox.
Sunday, June 11 @ 4pm
The Icebox at Crane Arts
1400 N. American St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
MoM 2: in search of ourselves
an evening of world premieres by Brown, Fujikura, Minakakis

Saturday, June 24 @ 8pm
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia
displaced villages, lost forever; refugees on the Isle of Lesbos;
and a co-commission with the Tokyo Philharmonic Choir;
with an original libretto by Todd Hearon for Greg's un/bodying/s
MoM 3: Anonymous Man
a world premiere from Bang-on-a-Can composer Michael Gordon

Saturday, July 1 @ 8pm
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia
conversations with the homeless, giving voice to those that are otherwise invisible to the city - on a New York street that once welcomed Lincoln's funeral cortege:
history, community, love, and death
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