OCTOBER 7, 2021
7:30 PM
Ganz Hall
VIRTUAL BROADCAST:
OCTOBER 15 – 21, 2021
7:30 PM
Ganz Hall
VIRTUAL BROADCAST:
OCTOBER 15 – 21, 2021
OCTOBER 7 TICKETS
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The Festival’s opening program, Songs of the New World, showcases songs about the immigrant experience.
Songs by composers Ian Cusson, Missy Mazzoli, Mohammed Fairouz, and Ruth Crawford Seeger feature on this program alongside songs by Franz Schubert, who wrote many songs on the themes of wandering and pilgrimage. A highlight of this performance will be the Midwest premiere of a new song cycle for tenor and string quartet written by Nico Muhly, Stranger, in which Muhly juxtaposes settings of accounts of immigration through Ellis Island with settings of texts protesting the United States’ Chinese Exclusion policies of the late 19th century, which persisted through the years of World War II.
Songs by composers Ian Cusson, Missy Mazzoli, Mohammed Fairouz, and Ruth Crawford Seeger feature on this program alongside songs by Franz Schubert, who wrote many songs on the themes of wandering and pilgrimage. A highlight of this performance will be the Midwest premiere of a new song cycle for tenor and string quartet written by Nico Muhly, Stranger, in which Muhly juxtaposes settings of accounts of immigration through Ellis Island with settings of texts protesting the United States’ Chinese Exclusion policies of the late 19th century, which persisted through the years of World War II.
Concert I photo: Chinese women and children at Angel Island immigration station, California, ca. 1910–40. California Historical Society
PROGRAM
FRANZ SCHUBERT: selected songs
MISSY MAZZOLI: This World Within Me is Too Small from Songs from the Uproar
RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER: Chinaman! Laundryman! from Two Ricercari
MOHAMMED FAIROUZ: Refugee Blues
IAN CUSSON: Where There's A Wall
THOMAS CAMPION: Never weather-beaten sail
NICO MUHLY: Stranger (Midwestern premiere)
MISSY MAZZOLI: This World Within Me is Too Small from Songs from the Uproar
RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER: Chinaman! Laundryman! from Two Ricercari
MOHAMMED FAIROUZ: Refugee Blues
IAN CUSSON: Where There's A Wall
THOMAS CAMPION: Never weather-beaten sail
NICO MUHLY: Stranger (Midwestern premiere)
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GANZ HALL 430 S MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60605 |
ARTISTS
AVALON STRING QUARTET
AMANDA LYNN BOTTOMS, mezzo-soprano
YASUKO OURA, piano
NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor & CAIC artistic director
AMANDA LYNN BOTTOMS, mezzo-soprano
YASUKO OURA, piano
NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor & CAIC artistic director
all performance and master class photography by Ryan Bennett, Mike Grittani, and Elliot Mandel