Song & Dance
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The program considers both the literal and metaphoric readings of the phrase Song and Dance. New works by Douglas Boyce and Washington DC based composer Andrew Simpson use song to evoke images of warfare from a distance, Boyce working from Federico Garcia Lorca’s poem Paisaje con Dos Tumbas y Un Perro Asirio and Simpson from texts by Tennyson, de Quincy and Lewis Carroll. Both works will feature Washington National Opera’s Robert Baker, tenor. Philip Rothman’s String Trio was originally composed in collaboration with dancers. Jukka Tiensuu’s outlandish bass clarinet theatre-piece Asteletsa is perhaps the exemplar of the program- the movement of the clarinetist across the stage is an integral part of the work, and yet the gap between the sound and the motion is never resolved. New York composer Ryan Streber will also be featured with a commission for the counter)induction core quintet and mezzo-soprano Bo Chang