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The Crossing @ Winter This concert will kick off The Celan Project with two 1997 settings of the poet’s words by Erhard Karkoschka, the Czech composer whose interest in improvisation and loosening the autonomy of musical notation were heard to great effect in our performance of his music last Fall. Equally innovative, but more closely tied to traditional notation, is the music of Bo Holten, who seems to have been born with an affinity for choral textures. The featured composer of our entire season, two of Holten’s works will be sung in January: A time for everything; and First Snow, the latter beginning with an extended wordless description of snow falling. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in music, David Lang’s taut, emotion-packed musical language will be heard in a new work for women’s voices: I want to live (2008). Famed British choral composer and conductor (The Finzi Singers), Paul Spicer’s How Love Bleeds (Four Carols for Dark Times) (2003/5) will be sung, and the concert will conclude with John Kennedy’s Someday (2000). Kennedy is head of Santa Fe New Music and an internationally recognized percussionist. He wrote this work for Kent Tritle’s choir at St. Ignatius Loyola in New York, a creative and uplifting setting of the prose of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit and author of the modernist The Phenomenon of Man.
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