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MOM 1 In Concert at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill - Directions Month of Moderns opens Sunday, June 5 with a commissioned premiere of Gabriel Jackson for Seneca Sounds (our central theme for this year’s Month of Moderns). Drawing a parallel to the temporal aspects of Seneca's writing, we introduce two works based on Ecclesiastes (both bearing the same title): Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's Igen (2006), and American Pulitzer Prize laureate David Lang's Again (2006) and give the area premiere of Ingram Marshall's astounding reaction to war using ancient Roman texts in his Savage Altars. Mark Winges (resident composer at Volti in San Francisco - the only other professional ensemble in the USA dedicated to new works) further expands our ideas about choral music with The Assembling Landscape (2008), a lush, pointillistic and moving work that dispenses of text entirely. Don't miss: Gabriel Jackson's works featured on Month of Moderns 2 and 3. Read the text from the first two movements of Kile Smith's Seneca Sounds work. |
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Seneca Sounds has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project. This project was supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional arts funding partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Additional support of the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) Partnership in Southeastern Pennsylvania is provided by PECO. Month of Moderns 2011 is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. This project is supported in part by the American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter. |
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