Earth, nothing more. Earth, nothing less.
And let that be enough for you.*
Season Announcement
Ambitious, affirming, and promising: our 2022-2023 season begins and ends on a farm in Bucks County; between these rural bookends are cosmopolitan collaborations with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and PRISM Quartet, and appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center, and Lincoln Center. World premieres by Ted Hearne, Caroline Shaw, George Lewis, Jennifer Higdon, Martin Bresnick, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and John Luther Adams.
And our first resident composer joins us: Ayanna Woods.
Our season Cultivate/Curate asks questions about our relationship to earth, and our care and absence of care in curating all fellow living things (of which we're just .01%), like the oysters being farmed in the photo above. It's a big season which culminates with Ted's big, new piece called "Farming," performed next to a tended field after four years in development. We're finding ways of expressing musically "where we are," reaching with our voices for answers, as we manage the responsibilities that have fallen to us as the planet's most innovative (and deadly) species. We are joyful for a new season of singing about the Earth, grateful for the luxury of discussion in song, and ever in awe of the beauty and majesty of our little planet.
Come. Hear. Now.
