-THIS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED-

Arkora and Ear Heart Music Ensemble - Songs and Glosses (Redshift Records CD release party)

This performance offers the New York premieres of two works, one with vocalist, one with narrator, which expertly explore literary angles and a search for deeper meaning through color and nuance. Revered Spanish composer Benet Casablancas offers us a different type of cycle; one in which musical response follows the spirit-seeking narrative of a pilgrim in Six Glosses on Texts by Cees Nooteboom. Frenetic and compact, but simultaneously open and spacious, the work transcends paradox. Masterful in his color and orchestration, Casablancas responds to the rich fabric of allusions and chiaroscuro, encouraging changes in coloration and expressive register which characterize each movement. In maximizing instrumental possibility to its fullest and most pristine, Casablancas contrasts contemplation with impulse, lyric intermezzi with the bare essence of Haiku, and light scherzando with profound momentum.

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