Name: Voices of the Earth
Start: 2024-05-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Cincinnati Music Hall

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May Festival

Orchestra

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Others

May Festival Chorus

May Festival Youth Chorus

Conductor

Teddy Abrams

Steiger Butte Singers

Bang on a Can All-Stars

Voices of the Earth

Cincinnati

United States

Cincinnati Music Hall

Voices of the Earth: Histoires naturelles Ravel (+1 More)

Public

Histoires naturelles

Anthracite Fields

Pallavi Pawar

Approved

Celebrating the natural wonders of earth and the perseverance of miners in Pennsylvania coal country, this program reflects both the beauty and tragedy of humanity’s relationship with our planet. Natural History is a collaboration between composer Michael Gordon and the Steiger Butte Singers. Written and commissioned to mark the centennial of the National Park System, the piece poses the question: If Crater Lake National Park were a symphony, what would it sound like? The result is a surround-sound celebration of nature and the park’s spiritual connection to the surrounding community. In contrast, Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields is a haunting and powerful oratorio that captures not only the sadness of lives lost in the anthracite coal fields at the turn of the 20th century, but a way of daily life now also lost. The Bang on a Can All-Stars lend their ferocity to this profound work alongside the May Festival Chorus.

English

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Ensemble