Performers:
Crossing Borders:
Caroline Jesalva, violin
Sarah Kim, violin
Wilfred Farquharson, viola
Lindsey Sharpe, cello
Elijah Hawkins, rapper
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La Caccina:
Sarah Fisk, soprano
Megan Fletcher, soprano
Carling FitzSimmons, soprano
Alana Grossman, soprano
Nyandeng Juag, mezzo-soprano
Madeleine Woodworth, mezzo-soprano
Stephanie Schoenhofer, mezzo-soprano
Eden Hensel, alto
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Holocene:
Dalia Chin, flute
Isidora Nojkovic, cello
Phoebe Wu, piano
Emma Hospelhorn, voice
Program:
Crossing Borders: Chicago Composers:
The Next Generation World-Premiere
Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins, arr. AJ Isaacson-Zvidzwa | March Timpani
Kennedy Bosley † | Moonlit River
Camryn Blair † | August
Lady Teodora Gibson † | Dead of Night Revelations
Raine Ramirez † | Staccato
Morgan Wash † | [Untitled]
Myshona Phillips † | Tango Conmigo
Catherine Blair † | A Sudden Dream
Emigdio D. Lais † | Question Mark*
Lady Teodora Gibson † | Sunlight's Dance/Shadow's Embrace*
Andy Franco † | Wane*
Kennedy Bosley † | All That Is Love *
Daniel Bernard Roumain † | Klap Ur Handz from String Quartet #5 ("Rosa Parks")
La Caccina: Weird Sisters
Melissa Dunphy | Wild Embers
Mist Þorkelsdóttir | Spinna Minni
Traditional American, arr. Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, and Gillian Welch | Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby
Katerina Gimon | Siren Song
Hannah Cai Sobel | Oread*
Darius Lim | A Puppet's Dream
Ysaÿe M. Barnwell | Breaths
Stefan Kalmer, arr. Carling FitzSimmons † | When shall we three meet again?
Arne Mellnäs | Aglepta
Stacey V. Gibbs | The Mysteries*
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, arr. Megan Fletcher † | The Ballad of the Witches' Road
Devon Cole, arr. Emily Drum | W.I.T.C.H.
Holocene:
Tania Rubio | Grito Silente del Mar
Shi-An Costello † | night music
I. Order
II. Time
III. Harmony
IV. Counterpoint
V. Resonance
Emma Hospelhorn | The Universal Energy is About to Intervene in Your Life
Megan DiGeorgio† | seed/quiescence
George Crumb | Vox Balaenae
Trio plus Emma Hospelhorn
*World Premiere Performance
† Illinois-based Composer
‡ Micro-Grant Awardee
“Chicago Composers: the Next Generation” celebrates the work of composers in the Crossing Borders Music Young Composers Project.
In the project, youth from music programs in North Lawndale and Garfield Park receive weekly composition lessons and write a piece for the Crossing Borders Music string quartet. Hear their fresh, new approaches to an age-old genre!
Plus, hear music commissioned by Crossing Borders Music of emerging African-American composers including brand new works by Jessica T Carter and more.
Join La Caccina for Weird Sisters and hear stories of witches, magic, and powerful women. Throughout history, women who possessed deep knowledge in subjects like botany, physiology, and medicine were condemned as witches. This concert sets the record straight, celebrating the power of those knowledgeable women and harnessing the magic that lives within us all.
Expanding brings focus to the voices of the living and inanimate that exist in our shared world. Featuring the premiere of The Universal Energy is About to Intervene in Your Life, by Emma Hospelhorn, Holocene is joined onstage by the composer herself as vocalist. Vox Balaenae by George Crumb, inspired by an early recording of the voices of whales, immerses listeners in the sense of nature’s powerful and impersonal forces. Works by Tania Rubio, Megan DiGeorgio, and Shi-An Costello explore the everyday and remarkable features that make up our environment, including shadows, the subjectivity of time, intimacy, and deterioration.
