Month of Moderns 2 (2018): Voyages

Voyages

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For more information on these works, please visit the page for our commercial release of Voyages.

Month of Moderns 2: Voyages focuses on the most basic of our relationships: the love between two people. This concert is a rich and unusual event in which two composers, Benjamin C. S. Boyle and Robert Convery, set the same text, twenty-five years apart; Hart Crane’s Voyages is a masterpiece of 20th-century literature – an exhilarating and devastating journey through a passionate, obsessive, and doomed intimacy we all crave and fear.

PROGRAM

Voyages (1994)                                                                                                                                             Robert Convery

This concert program was recorded this week for future release.

This live concert was recorded for broadcast by our partner WRTI, 90.1 FM, Philadelphia’s Classical and Jazz Public Radio Station.

intermission

Voyages, Cantata No. 2, Op. 41 (2018)                                                                                           Benjamin C.S. Boyle
—world premiere—

I. Avowal: Bind us in time
II. Seascape: Above the fresh ruffles of the surf
III. Pairings: And yet this great wink of eternity
IVa. Aria: This tendered theme of you
IVb. Aria: And so, admitted through black swollen gates
V. Descent: Meticulous, infrangible, and lonely
VI. Chorale: Draw in your head

Commissioned by the Crossing and Donald Nally
with the generous support of Pamela Prior and Debra Reinhard