21st Century Consort: Sound Shards | the complete concert at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum

00:00 Jessie Montgomery: Peace (2020)
05:32 Olly Wilson: A City Called Heaven II (1989)
12:03 Nkeiru Okoye: 1861 (2011)
16:39 Mark Kuss: Ares (2022, world premiere, with film by H. Paul Moon)
31:28 Stephen Jaffe: Tableaux for piano solo (2022, world premiere)
- Part One:
- 1. Prelude
- 2. Resonances (“Rainbow Resonances”)
- 3. Opposites: (A) Anthem (B) “Hatred Destroys the World”
- Part Two
- 4. Jangle
- Part Three
- 5. Partita-Variations: “Every soul is precious”
1:02:14 Evan Chambers: The Old Burying Ground (2007)
I. And pass from hence away
II. Nancy Eliza
III. Amos and Violate Fortune
IV. Oh say grim death

Peter Becker, baritone
Paul Cigan, clarinet
Evan Chambers, vocalist
Lisa Emenheiser, piano
Daniel Foster, viola
Sarah Frisof, flute
Lee Hinkle, percussion
Derek Powell, violin
Rachel Young, cello
H. Paul Moon, video artist
Christopher Kendall, conductor

Filmed & edited by H. Paul Moon | ‪@zenviolence‬ | https://zenviolence.com
Audio engineered by Mark Huffman
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., February 4, 2023

[Note: subtitles are available to watch with the "Ares" work when you click the CC icon at the bottom-right of the video frame. You can also follow along with the complete concert program by clicking this link to the PDF file: https://21consort.org/media/programs/...]