The Bay Area's acclaimed contemporary music chamber chorus, Volti, teams up with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble for a special collaborative concert inspired by the art of letter writing. It's a natural alliance: Volti's singers join forces with LCCE's instrumentalists, renowned for finding provocative and beguiling ways of pairing standard repertoire with new music. Together the ensembles present world premieres from composers Onur Turkmen and Mark Winges, featuring letters of Janacek, Goethe, Virginia Woolf, and Abelard and Heloise. Separately, LCCE performs Janacek's String Quartet #2 "Intimate Letters" and Volti sings moving music from David Lang's "battle hymns," based on a soldier's goodbye letter.
The concert features the world premiere of "Letters" by Volti's resident composer Mark Winges. This new work examines texts from three very different eras and writers in its three movements: Abelard and Heloise, Leo� Janacek and Kamila Stosslova, and Virginia Woolf. The music sometimes reflects the mood and flow of the texts with little heed to the words themselves, and other times presents the words in a very straightforward, intelligible manner.
Turkish composer Onur Turkmen also contributes a new work for LCCE's string quartet and the Volti singers. Inspired by a letter from Goethe to Charlotte von Stein, this piece explores not only unanswered questions about life and love, but also the bare sounds of the text and how they relate to each other. In this piece, Turkmen uses makams, a system of scales used in Turkish classical music. He often focuses on connections between poetry, drama and ritual to create spiritual transformative environments for performers and audiences.
Onur Turkmen * but you alone for String Quartet and Chorus - World Premiere Leo� Janacek * String Quartet #2 "Intimate Letters" David Lang * A Father's Love from "battle hymns" Mark Winges * Letters for String Quartet and Chorus - World Premiere
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