Co-created by Jennifer Stager and Michael Hersch, The Roaring Tides is a three-part series of cross-disciplinary events that interleave art and music to bring people together through the concert hall, the lectern, the screen, and the page. Staging a dialogue between past and present, the programs frame interdisciplinary exploration of art and music through the lens of Greek tragedy, both because this genre historically incorporated music, visual art, and performance, and because tragedy’s exploration of the human condition has inspired so much subsequent creative work. Free and open to the public, the programming brings art and music together into fresh paradigms, constructing cohesive wholes where the uncertainties of our own present moment collide with our shared past.

Program

Peter Philips: Pavana Dolorosa
Rebecca Saunders: O
Pierre Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 2, III. Modéré, presque vif
Kate Soper: the goddess laughed (world premiere)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, IX. Night
Johannes Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, I. Denn es geht dem Menschen
Michael Hersch: Agamemnon Fragments (world premiere)

—Intermission—

Johannes Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, III. O Tod, wie bitter bist du
Dmitri Shostakkovich: Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, X. Death
Michael Hersch: Philomela Fragments
Iannis Xenakis: Mikka “S”
Augusta Read Thomas: Alcestis Ascends (world premiere)
John Dowland: Pavana Lachrymae

Artists

Ah Young Hong, soprano
Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone
William Meinert, bass
Sasha Ishov, flute
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Chris Gross, cello
Will Yager, contrabass
Jacob Rhodebeck, piano

Admission is free and open to the public. There will be a pre-concert talk at 6:15pm.