Music
On the Threshold of Winter
- 7:30PM
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Directed by Roger Brunyate
Presented by Nunc
Michael Hersch’s long-awaited first work for the stage
receives its world premiere. Scored for soprano and an ensemble of
eight, the two-act work follows the trajectory of Marin Sorescu’s
wrenching last book, The Bridge.
Suffering from the late stages of cancer, Sorescu wrote these poems
in hospital during his life’s final weeks.
In the words of co-translator Adam J. Sorkin: “These poems …
expressions of doubt, reluctant faith, protest … are a testament
not just to human mortality and pain, but to resistance ... a
creative transformation of the struggle to accept fate and in the
same breath attempt to defy its imminent finality … I suspect
though, that there is no way to be immune to the harrowing content,
even if one tries. The volume progresses chronologically from the
beginning of November 1996 onward. A mere five weeks. Most of the
poems are dated, and the inexorable momentum of poem after poem
toward Sorescu’s death seems to make the book something like a
medieval tableau, a dance of death arranged as a procession of
still living poems.”
Soprano: Ah Young Hong
Conductor: Tito Muñoz
Violin: Miranda Cuckson
Cello: Julia Bruskin
Flute: Tara O’Connor
Oboe: Arthur Sato
Clarinet: Vasko Dukovski
Bass clarinet: Benjamin Fingland
Piano: Matei Varga
Percussion: Matthew Gold
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