Event

Concert I - The Invisible

PROGRAM:
Yigit Kolat: Kav Yanklar/Echoes of Tinder for ensemble and electronics
George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn for violin, alto flute, cello and piano
Chinary Ung: Still Life after Death for amplified soprano and instruments
Rebecca Saunders: A Visible Trace for eleven soloists and conductor

Invisible threads are the strongest ties, Friedrich Nietzsche said. Our season opens remembering, commemorating, and empathizing with the invisible. The evening includes Yigit Kolats Kav Yanklar/Echoes of Tinder, written in memory of the victims of the 1993 massacre in Sivas, Turkey of prominent intellectuals and artists by a mob of Islamic fundamentalists. The night continues with George Crumbs Eleven Echoes of Autumn that contemplates the significance of poet Federico Garcia Lorcas motto-quote and the broken arches where time suffers. Chinary Ungs Still Life After Death dramatically evokes a Cambodian Buddhist ritual where a monk assists a dying person to leave life behind. A Visible Trace, a piece by Rebecca Saunders, is introduced by Italian writer Italo Calvinos statement, The word connects the visible with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge over an abyss. Our first concert will try to bridge that abyss through music.