Seattle Modern Orchestra: The Invisible
$25 ($15 seniors, $10 students)
Chinary Ung — Still Life after Death
George Crumb — Eleven Echoes of Autumn
Yiğit Kolat — Kav Yankıları / Echoes of Tinder
Yiğit Kolat – Kav Yankıları / Echoes of Tinder
George Crumb – Eleven Echoes of Autumn
Chinary Ung – Still Life after Death
Rebecca Saunders – A Visible Trace
“Invisible threads are the strongest ties,” Friedrich Nietzsche said. Seattle Modern Orchestra's season opens remembering, commemorating, and empathizing with the invisible. The evening includes Yiğit Kolat’s Kav Yankıları / Echoes of Tinder, written in memory of the victims of the 1993 massacre in Sivas, Turkey of prominent intellectuals and artists by a mob of Islamic fundamentalists. The night continues with George Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn that contemplates the significance of poet Federico Garcia Lorca’s motto-quote “… and the broken arches where time suffers.” Chinary Ung’s Still Life After Death dramatically evokes a Cambodian Buddhist ritual where a monk assists a dying person to leave life behind. A Visible Trace, a piece by Rebecca Saunders, is introduced by Italian writer Italo Calvino’s statement, “The word connects the visible with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge over an abyss.” Their first concert will try to bridge that abyss through music.
About Seattle Modern Orchestra
Founded in 2010, Seattle Modern Orchestra (SMO) is the only large ensemble in the Pacific Northwest solely dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Led by co-artistic directors Julia Tai and Jérémy Jolley, SMO commissions and premieres new works from an international lineup of composers, in addition to presenting important pieces from the contemporary repertoire that are rarely if ever heard by Seattle audiences. The ensemble "operates at that exciting cusp between old and new, between tradition and innovation" (Vanguard Seattle) curating new sounds and experiences for concert goers in the region.
SMO provides audiences with performances of the best in contemporary chamber and orchestral music, and develops radio talks, lectures, and other forms of outreach in an accessible and inviting format all designed to expand the listener’s appreciation and awareness of the music of today.
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