Cellist Maya Beiser newest production, All Vows, explores the dichotomy between the physical, external world we inhabit and the inner landscape of our secret selves. It includes the Chicago-area premieres of Michael Gordon's All Vows, Chicago's own Glenn Kotche's Three Parts Wisdom, and Mohammed Fairouz's Kol Nidrei, plus Michael Harrison's Just Ancient Loops and re-imagined classic rock from Maya's latest album Uncovered.
The first half of All Vows begins with a set of "uncovers", crafted by Maya with arrangements by Evan Ziporyn. Re-contextualizing classic rock through the lense of her cello, Maya goes deep inside music by Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Janis Joplin, and Howlin Wolf to reveal the core of each song as a musical masterpiece - a totem of our collective consciousness forged by our shared, popular culture. Composer and drummer Glenn Kotche (Wilco) contributes Three Parts Wisdom, a rhythmic and multilayered new work for Maya that evokes the experience of the individual alone and as part of a collective.
The second half of All Vows delves into our inherent desire for ritual and meaning, and begins with Arab-American composer Mohammed Fairouz's new Kol Nidrei, in which Maya sings the text in Aramaic and engages echoes of ancient cantorial styles. Michael Gordon's All Vows takes the Kol Nidrei as its starting point, and reimagines it entirely. Michael Harrison's Just Ancient Loops is a 25-minute epic piece that unveils every aspect of the cello from its most glorious and mysterious harmonics to earthy, rhythmic pizzicatos all utilizing "just intonation," an ancient tuning system in which the distances between notes are based upon whole number ratios.
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