This concert focuses on both the catastrophic and the mundane aspects of nature. Both through resisting nature (Fighting the Fire by Elizabeth Kowalski), and feeling its presence (Drip Music by Katherine Balch). The birds of the air show up in Kaija Saariaho’s Terrestre, but we are brought back to oceans and slow time in Annea Lockwood’s Water and Memory. Gabriella Smith’s Requiem (for all the animals that came before) uses text that is a compilation of Latin names for all the animals that have gone extinct in the last 100 years.
