Philharmonic musicians perform chamber works by six contemporary composers who chose to spend time living and working in America. Taken together, these works weave together influences from all over the world to form a uniquely American tapestry of sound.
CHEN Yi (b. 1953)
At the Kansas City Chinese New Year Concert (2002)
1. The Talking Fiddle
2. Making the Hand-Pulled Noodles
3. Blue Dragon Sword Dance
Georg Friedrich HAAS (b. 1953)
tria ex uno (2001)
1. tria ex uno i
2. tria ex uno ii
3. tria ex uno iii
Marcos BALTER (b. 1974)
Chambers (2011)
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
Kinan AZMEH (b. 1976)
Café Damas (2018; World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission)
Thomas ADÈS (b. 1971)
Darknesse Visible (1992)
Donnacha DENNEHY (b. 1970)
Bulb (2006)
Part of the GRoW @ Annenberg Sound ON series
Nadia Sirota is The Marie-Josée Kravis Creative Partner
An opera about a woman who disguises herself as a man to free her husband from political imprisonment. No, it’s not Beethoven’s Fidelio; it is David Lang’s fresh take on the same themes of love and liberty, but expressed in his contemporary, clear, American musical voice.
David LANG (b...
Music can tell stories more directly than words. This chamber music program presents contemporary works by Ellen Reid, Thea Musgrave, Jacob Druckman, and John Luther Adams that tell tales — two bewitched by water, two wrapped in the ephemera of dreams.
DRUCKMAN (1928–96)
Reflections on the...
Five contemporary vocal works that explore ideas of timeliness and timelessness. There’s Lizée’s pastiche of karaoke tapes and Crumb’s iconoclastic response to Apollo 11. La Barbara’s litany on American history and Prestini’s intimate portrait of the author of Silent Spring. Ber...
