Five Boroughs Music Festival Presents Terra Nova
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Five Boroughs Music Festival presents Terra Nova, a new concert-length song cycle created by the members of composer-collective Oracle Hysterical and performed in collaboration with the contemporary mixed-instrument quartet Hub New Music. Inspired by a range of ambitious, gritty (and sometimes naïve, cruel, and myopic) explorers, the songs of Terra Nova are by turns darkly ironic, heartrending, and straight-up fun (and occasionally a confounding mix of all three), coalescing into a powerful experience of both text and music.
Among its songs is a playful setting of John James Audubon’s descriptions of wood warblers by Brad Balliett, Dylan Greene’s depiction of the pre-Columbian exploration of North America by Chinese mariners, a melancholy view from Amelia Earhart’s cockpit by Majel Connery, Elliot Cole’s haunting setting of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s final letter home, and a Beastie Boys-like shout of the cruel Spanish Requirement of 1513, set by Doug Balliett.
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05/15/2021 12:00 pm
05/15/2021 01:15 pm
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Five Boroughs Music Festival Presents Terra Nova
<p><a href="http://5bmf.org/" target="_blank">Five Boroughs Music Festival</a> presents <em>Terra Nova</em>, a new concert-length song cycle created by the members of composer-collective <a href="http://www.oraclehysterical.com/" target="_blank">Oracle Hysterical</a> and performed in collaboration with the contemporary mixed-instrument quartet <a href="http://www.hubnewmusic.org/" target="_blank">Hub New Music</a>. Inspired by a range of ambitious, gritty (and sometimes naïve, cruel, and myopic) explorers, the songs of <em>Terra Nova</em> are by turns darkly ironic, heartrending, and straight-up fun (and occasionally a confounding mix of all three), coalescing into a powerful experience of both text and music. </p>
<p>Among its songs is a playful setting of John James Audubon’s descriptions of wood warblers by Brad Balliett, Dylan Greene’s depiction of the pre-Columbian exploration of North America by Chinese mariners, a melancholy view from Amelia Earhart’s cockpit by Majel Connery, Elliot Cole’s haunting setting of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s final letter home, and a Beastie Boys-like shout of the cruel …
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