Describing the composition as a “wordless opera,” guitarist and composer Steven Mackey collaborated with percussionist Jason Treuting in this update on the story of Orpheus, Eurydice, and the mythological netherworld they explore. Mackey’s chamber opera combines music with filmed dance, casting the tragic legend in the contemporary sound world of drums and electric guitar.
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Orpheus Unsung will be paired with a rendition of Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s Galgenlieder, which is based on Christian Morgenstern’s Gallow’s Songs, an early 20th-century poetry cycle. Soprano Melanie Henley Heyn, previously seen and heard at the Nasher during the seventh season of Soundings for Scullhoff, Reich, and Wagner: Music from Yellow Barn, adds vocals to the selection. Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect alumna, Lizzie Burns is the double bassist for this partly instrumental, partly vocal performance, joined by Sam Seyong Um, who will return to the Soundings stage on March 1, 2019 with The Percussion Collective in Rituals of War and Death.
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