Concert: Between Words and Worlds

Collage New Music, conducted by Anna Handler, performs works by Widmann, Neuwirth, and Roustom among others

Contemporary Music Festival @ Goethe

Pre-Concert Talk at 6:30pm with Artistic Director Eric Nathan and featured composers.

This concert features the Boston conducting debut of German-Colombian conductor, Anna Handler, currently the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Assistant Conductor. The program revolves around themes of language, memory, life, and death in the human and natural worlds, as well as the supernatural.

Artists: 

Vocal works bookend the program: Kareem Roustom’s Xarja, which speaks of love, loss, and refuge, and Jörg Widmann’s Sieben Abgesänge auf eine tote Linde, a requiem for a tree, in part from the tree’s perspective.

Kareem Roustom: Xarja (2017)

soprano and percussion

Olga Neuwirth: Magic Flu-Idity (2018)

flute and typewriter/wine glasses

Gabriela Ortiz: El águila bicéfala (2005)

flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano

Jingmian Gong (2024 Collage Fellow): Elegy (2024) world premiere (Collage Commission) 

flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion

Gabriella Smith: Anthozoa (2018)

violin, cello, piano, percussion

Jörg Widmann: Sieben Abgesänge auf eine tote Linde (1997)

soprano, clarinet, violin, piano

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