Esprit Orchestra | ICEFIRE, DO-RE-MI & CARING FOR THE EARTH

Part of the Edge Of Your Seat International Festival

Pre-concert talk at 7:15 p.m.

In Streich’s ISHJÄRTA layers of expressive chord characters, “warm” and “colder,” encompass a realm where expressions freely emerge amidst contrasting layers – a piece about heart and intensifying expression.

Eötvös’s concerto revolves around a deceptively simple source – the notes Do-Re-Mi that every child learns from nursery rhymes and childhood songs. These notes have inherent immense tensions and conflicts amongst them. Dramatic situations can evolve – and in this work they do!

A question for audiences of 2118 about how notions of time, space, sound, and history have shaped their world guided Norman in writing Sustain as a continuous spiral contemplating the rise and fall of species, the movement of tectonic plates, the birth and death of stars and about how the Earth will fare over long periods into the future.

featuring
Alex Pauk Conductor
Akiko Suwanai (JPN) Violin
Lisa Streich (SWE) Guest Composer
Andrew Norman (USA) Guest Composer

Program:
Lisa Streich (SE): ISHJÄRTA* (2024)
Péter Eötvös (HU): Violin Concerto #2 “DoReMi”** (2011-12)
Andrew Norman (US): Sustain (2018)

*North American premiere
**Canadian premiere

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