Violinist Lara St. John, vocalist Aviva Chernick, and the Gryphon Trio will likely be performing INVOCATIONS, the ultimate live performance of 2024 for Toronto’s Soundstreams. Because the title suggests, this system contains music that’s meant to take its listeners past the current, and past themselves.
“Within the newest world shift in the direction of anger, xenophobia and disrespect for the planet all of us share, my solely reply may be music, offering magnificence and solace to those that are struggling. My very own invocation for these occasions is to be robust sufficient to show my fear for others into one thing that may heal and preserve alight the flame of artwork and music inside durations of darkness,” Lara St. John feedback in a press release.
INVOCATIONS takes place on the Jane Mallett Theatre on December 5. Right here’s a better have a look at what’s in retailer.
Soundstreams: INVOCATIONS
Vivian Fung’s Prayer, impressed by Hildegard von Bingen, opens the live performance, paired with Amy Seashore’s religious Invocation.
The time period nigun can check with melody or music, based mostly on the concept that it’s an expression of the form of feelings that may’t be put into phrases. Initially, it was a form of improvised prayer in Hasidic Judaism within the 18th century. Nigun varieties the inspiration for most of the works on this system, together with Avner Dorman’s Nigunim, a piece that gained The Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music.
“For greater than 40 years, Soundstreams has been reimagining musical varieties that talk to age-old traditions and rituals. We’ve commissioned new works that breathe new life into varieties just like the tango, the fanfare and the oratorio. The nigun has such a wealthy historical past as a type of prayer, and it’s been a sheer delight to discover the methods wherein for generations it has been an attraction to one thing or somebody past ourselves,” says Soundstreams founding Creative Director Lawrence Cherney.
Additionally on this system are a world premiere by James Rolfe titled Metzarim, and Aaron Copland’s Vitebsk.
Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44, a piece that was thought-about groundbreaking in its time, and epitomizes the emotional romantic type, closes the live performance.
The total listing of performers contains Lara St. John, violin, Aviva Chernick, vocals, Noa Sarid, violin, and Sheila Jaffe, viola; and the Gryphon Trio: Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin, Roman Borys, cello, and Jamie Parker, piano.
- Discover extra particulars and tickets to the December 5 live performance [HERE].
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