The opening of our 8th-annual festival is less than a month away!
After the invigorating festival of 2016 with Seven Responses and Jeff Quartets, we return to the original structure of The Month of Moderns: three concerts of new choral music in three weeks!
We open MoM 1 with the world premiere of Joshua Stamper's
'mid the steep sky's commotion -
a meditation on wind, the words it carries, and the stories within our city, Philadelphia, that those words tell. With an installation and projections by Caroline Santa (above image). Also, works of Eriks Esenvalds, chosen for the amazing acoustic of Crane Arts' Icebox.
MoM 2 offers an evening of world premieres from Greg Brown (
un/bodying/s
), Dai Fujikura (
Zawazawa
), and Stratis Minakakis (
Crossings
) on displacement, migration, and refugees. Thoughtful, introspective music that draws on thousands of years of literature: from original poetry of Todd Hearon to Homer's Odyssey.
Finally, we conclude with MoM 3 and the world premiere of Bang-on-a-Can composer Michael Gordon's
Anonymous Man.
Based on conversations with the homeless, Michael's new work gives a voice to those that are otherwise invisible to the city; life on a New York street that once welcomed Lincoln's funeral cortege. A concert-length, major addition to the repertoire.
Pre-concert talks will be held one hour prior to each event.
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