Concert
dates: 2/07/06, 2/11/06
Kristina Boerger, Artistic Director
New York City, NY (USA)
The Ears of My Ears
A diverse banquet of new music by New York composers celebrates
the vitality of the chamber choir as a 21st-century musical
instrument. Conducted by Artistic Director Kristina Boerger, the
28 voices of Cerddorion will feature encore performances of
three works commissioned by the ensemble for its tenth
anniversary in 2005. Lisa Bielawa’s Lamentations for a City
juxtaposes the biblical text of the Lamentations of Jeremiah —
an eye-witness report of the sack of Jerusalem in 586 BCE —
with texts gleaned from web-media crisis reports from cities all
over the world. David Lang’s again (from Ecclesiastes)
paraphrases seven verses from Ecclesiastes I and sets them
according to a model that captures the endless repetitive cycles
of human experience. The joyful, lush harmonies of Elliot Z.
Levine soar in Aguas Puras del Nilo, his setting of a 17th
century villancico text by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Considered one of the most brilliant writers in Mexico’s
history, Sor Juana boldly insisted on women’s rights to
education before she was ultimately silenced by the Inquisition.
To complement these commissions, the concert program includes
two additional pieces by Levine set to poems by e.e. cummings,
as well as war-themed works by 18th–century American composer
William Billings and contemporary New York composer Jonathan
David. Performances in Brooklyn and Manhattan. For complete
details go to our website: http://www.cerddorion.net
212-260-1498
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