Fragile Freedoms
Friday, May 10, 2024 • 7:30 pm
Sanders Theatre
45 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Lang: the national anthems (2014)
Esmail: When the Violin (2018)
Haydn: Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass) Hob. XXII/11 (1798) "Mass in Troubled Times"
Back Bay Chorale & Orchestra
Deborah Selig, soprano
Christina English, mezzo soprano
Gregory Zavracky, tenor
David McFerrin, baritone
Caron Daley, conducting
Three very different pieces ask a similar question, “How do we move through, and past, uncertain times?”
In the national anthems (2014), David Lang investigates how countries identify their national myths through their anthems. Lang’s music exudes hope as the words of these anthems unfold in a minimalistic and mesmerizing fashion. The result is an extraordinarily beautiful tapestry of sound and lyrics that is powerful and evocative.
Reena Esmail’s When the Violin (2018) explores a hopeful response to suffering through the beautiful 14th-century poetry of Hafiz. Hafiz likens the human spirit to a violin, which can only sing its fullest song when it forgives the wounds of the past. Esmail’s extraordinary music bridges Western and Indian musical traditions by weaving a Hindustani raag into a rich polyphonic choral texture.
Franz Josef Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis Hob. XXII/11 (1798), or “Mass in Troubled Times” (also known as the Nelson Mass), is a stark and striking statement of faith, composed amid significant tumult in Europe. This is the third of Haydn’s six late masses, and has been described by H. C. Robbins Landon as “arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition.”
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