Another new work: composed by Wang Lu for the specific scenario of our socially-distant, amplified performance. This premiere holds great promise for a journey of colors coming from Lu’s truly inspired and personal sound world, as she explores the emotional valleys and peaks of 2019 Pulitzer-winner Forrest Gander’s raw, brutally honest poetry.
Ayanna Woods’ words and music struck us with their power last November and stayed with us in such a way that we were inspired to ask her to expand her brief work Shift into a multi-movement suite based in her own words: “I want…a monument we grasp and heave and bend in a long arc/bursting through the cracks in the story you tell, America.” There is energy and rhythm and a drive upward toward…is it hope, or demand?
MoM 3 will close with the US premiere of David Lang’s “the sense of senses,” a co-commission of The Crossing, The Company of Music (Vienna), and the Fisher Center at Bard College. The work distills all the senses mentioned in the Song of Songs, rearranged by sense, so that all seen things are together, all heard things together, etc. They are then presented from far to near – sight to sound to smell to feeling to taste. The result is a growing intensity as the senses come closer – an apt reminder of the power of sense as we emerge from an era in which so much of that very-human connection has been absent.
Friday, June 18, 2021, 6:30pm
Saturday, June 19, 2021, 6:30pm