Hub of the Musiverse 4: 50th Anniversary Season Finale
When:
Saturday, Jun 07, 2025 8:00p -
10:00p
Saturday, Jun 07, 2025 8:00p -
10:00p
Where:
First Parish Church
35 Church Street
Watertown, MA 02472
Admission:
$30/15/5
Hosted by:
Categories:
Music, Shows
Event website:
https://www.dinosaurannex.org/event-details/hub-of-the-musiverse-4
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble concludes its 50th Anniversary Season with Hub of the Musiverse 4, the fourth presentation of our heralded series celebrating works by composers from all over the world who have come through Boston and the United States to share their artistry through new sonic ideas.
The program features former Artistic Director Yu-Hui Chang’s significant solo cello work Alter Ego, an “inward-facing work” exploring dialogue between the performer and their instrument. Victor Marquez-Barrios’ One More Prayer, written during the Covid-19 pandemic, engages in musical dialogue with works by J. S. Bach and Alban Berg that were also written “in the face of health-related adversity.” Gilad Cohen’s Firefly Elegy mirrors the life cycle of the insect’s metamorphosis through its four life stages. Andreia Pinto Correia’s Pleistocene Landscapes for solo alto flute examines metamorphosis—geomorphological change in Lake Mungo in Australia—on a longer time scale. Michael-Thomas Foumai’s Printing Kapa derives from the geometric patterns of a native Hawaiian fabric made from the bark of trees, referencing an art form prevalent in the Pacific and through Polynesia. Finally, Lei Liang’s My Windows draws inspiration sources as diverse as Tian (“heaven), Vishnu Purana, and the woods.
Special birthday tribute compositions from former artistic director and general manager Emily Koh and Peter Van Zandt Lane complete our program in this celebratory season!
Compositions
Yu-Hui Chang: Alter Ego
Victor Marquez-Barrios: One More Prayer
Andreia Pinto Correia: Pleistocene Landscapes
Michael-Thomas Foumai: Printing Kapa
Gilad Cohen: Firefly Elegy
Lei Liang: My Windows
Emily Koh: Whispering Fossils
Peter Van Zandt Lane: 50for50
Musicians
Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, alto flute
Amy Advocat, clarinet
Charles Overton, harp
Donald Berman, piano
Omar Chen Guey, violin
Anne Black, viola
Stephen Marotto, cello
Orlando Cela, conductor
The concert is made possible by the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the Watertown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency; the Social Action Committee of First Parish Watertown; and the Alice M. Ditson Fund.
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