It's here.
The 2023-2024 Season: Sin Eating.
And it begins with crickets.
Specifically, U.S Poet Laureate Rita Dove's probing, moving "cricket poems" in their exploration of Black singing, a journey from its pre-slavery origins to today. Set by 2021 Pulitzer winner Tania León for The Crossing and renowned, mind-bendingly virtuosic flutist and MacArthur Fellow Claire Chase.
We feel this is an important evening; it's felt significant to be preparing Tania's piece along with the new work of Ayanna Woods, Infinite Growth, the product of her time with us as our Inaugural Resident Composer last season.
Both works are rhythmically captivating and imbued with deep thought and love.
Love, and the grief brought on by the loss of a loved one, is the stepping off point for Wang Lu’s At Which Point, a 2021 outdoor commission on poetry of Pulitzer-winner Forrest Gander. In fact, we love this piece, and we're reprising it to give it an "indoor premiere" (you may recall the memorable outdoor premiere in 2021, at Awbury Arboretum with ECHOES Amplification Kits!)
Stories of our time, told through the perspective
of three of our most imaginative composers.
Join us for the premiere Saturday –
or, if you're farther North than Philadelphia,
be at our Yale or Harvard performances next week.
