Crossing Borders // La Caccina // Holocene
Celebrate contemporary music with powerful performances from Crossing Borders Music, La Caccina, and Holocene. Crossing Borders’ program Chicago Composers: The Next Generation features new works by youth composers from North Lawndale and Garfield Park, alongside premieres by emerging African-American composers including Jessica T. Carter and AJ Isaacson-Zvidzwa. Vocal ensemble La Caccina presents Weird Sisters, exploring the stories of mythological and historical witches through music. Holocene offers Expanding, an immersive sound experience that shifts focus beyond the human perspective.
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Program
Program:
Crossing Borders: Chicago Composers:
The Next Generation World-Premiere
To be announced
La Caccina: Weird Sisters
Stefan Kalmer, arr. Carling FitzSimmons † | When shall we three meet again?
Katerina Gimon | Siren Song
Traditional American, arr. Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, and Gillian Welch | Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby
Arne Mellnäs | Aglepta
Hannah Cai Sobel | Oread*
Karen Beth | Full Moonlight Dance
Don Macdonald | Moonset, from "Fire Flowers"
Darius Lim | A Puppet's Dream
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, arr. Megan Fletcher † | The Ballad of the Witches' Road
Mist Þorkelsdóttir | Spinna Minni
Ysaye M. Barnwell | Breaths
Melissa Dunphy | Wild Embers
Stacey V. Gibbs | The Mysteries*
Devon Cole, arr. Emily Drum | W.I.T.C.H.
Holocene:
Shi-An Costello † | Night music
George Crumb | Vox Balaenae
Nina Shekhar | A Negative Space
Tania Rubio | Grito Silente del Mar
Emma Hospelhorn † | New work ‡
Trio plus Emma Hospelhorn
*World Premiere Performance
† Illinois-based Composer
‡ Micro-Grant Awardee
“Chicago Composers: the Next Generation” celebrates the work of composers in the Crossing Borders Music Young Composers Project.
In the project, youth from music programs in North Lawndale and Garfield Park receive weekly composition lessons and write a piece for the Crossing Borders Music string quartet. Hear their fresh, new approaches to an age-old genre!
Plus, hear music commissioned by Crossing Borders Music of emerging African-American composers including brand new works by Jessica T Carter and more.
Join La Caccina for Weird Sisters and hear stories of witches, magic, and powerful women. Throughout history, women who possessed deep knowledge in subjects like botany, physiology, and medicine were condemned as witches. This concert sets the record straight, celebrating the power of those knowledgeable women and harnessing the magic that lives within us all.
Expanding brings focus to the voices of the living and inanimate that exist in our shared world. Featuring the premiere of NEW WORK TBD by Emma Hospelhorn, Holocene is joined onstage by the composer herself as vocalist. Vox Balaenae by George Crumb, inspired by an early recording of the voices of whales, immerses listeners in the sense of nature’s powerful and impersonal forces. Works by Tania Rubio, Nina Shekhar, and Shi-An Costello explore the everyday and remarkable features that make up our environment, including shadows, the subjectivity of time, intimacy, and deterioration.