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http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbObxjfi3W9YKnDS0PgadNAInternational Contemporary Ensemble: Concert -

Experience evocative, aetherial timbres from two very unusual instruments, two world premieres, and intimate conversations with composers Suzanne Farrin and Ash Fure. This special digital concert brings you the first performance of Farrin’s Nacht, written for ondes Martenot, harp, percussion, bass and voice as a co-commission from the Library’s Carolyn Royall Just Fund and ICE. Setting texts from the great mystic poets Rumi and Hafiz, Farrin explores concepts of language, translation and identity. She performs as ondist in Nacht, and in Olivier Messiaen’s Louange á l’Éternité de Jésus, an arrangement of the fifth movement from his transcendant Quatuor pour le fin du temps.

Ash Fure’s interior listening protocol 1, created for this time of social distancing, calls for your engagement with a pair of instruments most musiclovers can easily find: two mason jars or two large glasses. Fure leads a slowly evolving choreography creating an immersive, shimmering soundcloud for viewers and participants.

As part of this excerpt from the evening’s offerings you can also sample a short documentary about Suzanne Farrin and Nacht, a window into the creative development of the piece, and the challenges of remote rehearsals and performances in a virtual music lab.

Suzanne Farrin, ondes martenot
Alice Teyssier, voice
Ross Karre, percussion
Randall Zigler, bass
Nuiko Wadden, harp
Jacob Greenberg, piano
Ryan Streber, sound engineer
Terrance McKnight, host

Program:
[2:02] Introductions
[8:51] Collaborative Home: Suzanne Farrin Portrait [documentary film]
[14:12] Discussion
[21:10] Ash Fure: interior listening protocol 1 (world premiere)
[29:25] Suzanne Farrin: Nacht (world premiere, co-commissioned by the Carolyn Royall Just Fund in the Library of Congress and the International Contemporary Ensemble
[32:24] Discussion
[44:13] Olivier Messiaen: Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus from Quatuor pour la fin du temps

For more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9913