6th Annual Month of Moderns Festival
MoM I: Ted Hearne world premiere
Ted Hearne world premiere: Sound From the Bench*
A new work on a text by Jena Osman
Taylor Levine, electric guitar
James Moore, electric guitar
Ron Wiltrout, percussion
Michael Gordon: He saw a skull
Huang Ruo: Without words
Anne Boyd: As I crossed a bridge of Dreams
Gavin Bryars: Two Love Songs
Harold Meltzer: Pacific Beach
Sunday, June 15 2014 @ 4pm
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
8855 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA
In Sound from the Bench (east coast premiere), San Francisco Symphony's newly-appointed New Voices composer Ted Hearne draws on text from Pew Fellow and Philadelphian Jena Osman's new book Corporate Relations. The book and Ted's piece address the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision decision establishing “corporate personhood.” Scored for choir, two electric guitars, and drum set, the work is an important addition to the canon: eclectic in styles and sources, emotion-packed, driven, thought-provoking and provocative. We add to that Huang Ruo's thoughtful Without words in Chinese, and Anne Boyd's ethereal As I crossed a bridge of Dreams about seeking Buddha. Finally, Harold Meltzer's Pacific Beach and Gavin Bryars' Two Love Songs for women's choir, both ponder love, loss, and aloneness.
*This is a co-commission with Volti, a San Francisco ensemble.