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Brooklyn, NY
$14 - $20
Underdog history comes to life through new music and old Irish songs in The Hunger by composer Donnacha Dennehy. It is an opera about the Great Famine of 1845-52, rooted in Asenath Nicholson’s harrowing first-person account in Annals of the Famine in Ireland. Featuring acclaimed ensemble Alarm Will Sound (Nonesuch Records at BAM, 2014 Next Wave) and celebrated Irish folk singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, The Hunger imagines soprano Katherine Manley as Nicholson and Ó Lionáird as the voice of the voiceless,…
St. Louis, MO
John Adams built his career in the 1980s making unique and unmistakable music of pulsing sound masses for large ensembles. But a 1992 commission for a one-of-each-instrument chamber ensemble forced him to fundamentally rethink his music, and it was a combination of Schoenberg and old 1950s-era cartoons that guided him to a new way forward. The dense and manic Chamber Symphony that emerged shocked fans who thought they knew what to expect from Adams, and its ferocious challenges pushed performers to…
St. Louis, MO
$10 - $30
Alarm Will Sound, in collaboration with Arts & Faith St. Louis, will present the St. Louis premiere of The Cave by Beryl Korot and Steve Reich, on March 11th at 8pm and March 12th at 2pm at the John Burroughs School. Using audio and video from interviews, The Cave explores the connections between the Judaic culture of Israel, the Arab culture of the West Bank, and American culture in New York City, Austin, and Dallas. The work incorporates five videos screens with material gathered…