Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival - Cygnus Ensemble

Collected in the final concert of Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival is a set of poignant, meaningful works whose themes range from forbidden love and explicit eroticism to respectful homage and the transcendent power of music. In the intimate setting of Symphony Space, Cygnus Ensemble will perform the world premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s Homage to Havel which memorializes great Czech artist dissident and statesman Vaclav Havel. Andrew Waggoner’s Souffrir/symphonier (“Suffer/Sound-Together”)… Show more expresses the “simultaneous expression and lifting of sadness through music-making.” Mohammed Fairouz’s Three Fragments of Ibn Khafajah are “innocent yet subversive” Arabic love poems about a man’s passion for another man. The world premiere of Frank Brickle’s Estat ai en greu cossirier, a setting of a troubadour song by Beatriz, Comtessa de Dia reinvents the explicit eroticism of the troubadour song.

PROGRAM:

Laura Kaminsky – Homage to Havel (US Premiere)
Faye Ellen Silverman – Pregnant Pauses
Mohammed Fairouz – Fragments of Ibn Khafajah
Frank Brickle – Estat ai en greu cossirer (US Premiere)
Andrew Waggoner – Souffrir/symphonier
Larry Alan Smith – An Infant Crying

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