Time stretches and folds around us. The moon waxes and wanes. It is time for Dal Niente to return to the stage, and it is time for your senses to envelop you in the mind-bending experience that is Gerard Grisey’s spectralist classic, Vortex Temporum. It is also time for you to dive into the sounds the voice can make with a never-before-heard arrangement of P is for… by Anthony Green, and experience the audacious sights and sounds of Parafrasis by Melissa Vargas, whose engagingly notated music is just theatrical enough to jump out of the screen and fill your home with new ideas. And your computer - that portal into infinite worlds - isn’t done with you yet. In Rebecca Saunders’ O Yes and I for Soprano and bass flute, the two voices transmute themselves and each other into a riot of colorful sounds and emotions. 

Program

Anthony Green - P is for … (2016)  for four performers
Watch our interview with Anthony Green

Gerard Grisey - Vortex Temporum for large ensemble (1996)
Watch a visual analysis of this piece

Melissa Vargas Franco - Paráfrasis for trio (2013)
See the score

Rebecca Saunders - O Yes and I for Soprano and Bass Flute (2017)
Read the text of Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses

Performed by

Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Soprano
Winston Choi, Piano
Tara Lynn Ramsey, Violin
Ammie Brod, Viola
Chris Wild, Cello
Emma Hospelhorn, Flute
Katie Schoepflin Jimoh, Clarinet

Michael Lewanski, Conductor