Babel: Open C4 Choral Concert Dress Rehearsal
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C4 is holding an open dress rehearsal for their upcoming choral concert, "Babel." "Babel" features songs in multiple languages about the struggle to communicate. C4 will premiere six pieces, including Brian Mountford's piece "Lest We Be Scattered" and Alexander Boostrom's "Of One Voice," both of which center around the biblical story of the Tower of Babel. Another world premiere comes from composer Bruce Saylor, which focuses on the Syrian diaspora and utilizes texts from ancient and contemporary Arab poets. Chino Toledo's rousing piece "Sitsit Digidong" includes both Tagalog and nonsense syllables in a highly rhythmic and energetic celebration of language and sound. Also on the program: "L'ours Réglisse et le sac à malices," (Bushra El-Turk), "A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation" (Mario Gullo), and "Jamais d'autre que toi" (Leah Ofman), all of which are world premieres.
Announcing 2020 Visionary Awards Recipient
2020 First Commission
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Ilaria Loisa Hawley
Quando L'acqua riflette (When the Water Reflects)
Performed by Face The Music
Isabella Caurucci, flute
Yusei Hata, melodica
Oriana Hawley, viola
John Waller, triangle
Vasudevan Panicker, coach
Born in 2009, Ilaria Loisa Hawley is the recipient of a 2019 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the inaugural recipient of Claire Chase's Pnea Foundation Young Flutist Award. Ilaria's music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic and Face the Music, and she is a composition student of Mathew Fuerst and a flute student of Zara Lawler. She attends PS 314 Muscota New School and enjoys drawing, drama, reading, rock climbing, and making earrings.