LOVE WOUNDS
A collection of works by Christopher Cerrone
In Collaboration with Latitude 49, Chicago Fringe Opera, and Christophe Cerrone
The vital and intimate emotional world of composer Christopher Cerrone is at the heart of Love Wounds. This evening of immersive theater will feature Chicago Fringe Opera, Chicago’s premiere “alt-opera” company, in collaboration with the powerhouse mixed-ensemble Latitude 49. Universal stories of love, loss and our sense of self will be explored by all performers in this production of multiple works that span the ancient to the millennial experience. Cerrone shows us the beauty and the gift in the wounds we carry and the music we can make of them. Including the cycles I Will Learn to Love a Person and The Naomi Songs, Cerrone’s one-act opera All Wounds Bleed, and a world premiere commission, Love Wounds seeks to intensify the theatrical communication between the vocalists, instrumentalists, and audience in order to bring us closer to each other and ourselves. Recent winner of the 2015 Rome Prize and Pulitzer Prize finalist for his opera Invisible Cities, Christopher Cerrone will be closely involved with Love Wounds, serving as composer/arranger and co-curator.
Play
PLAY transports the audience into an immersive sonic and visual playground--a program packed with the quirky, the sublime, and the unexpected. Brace yourself for a constantly engaging experience with surprising music that twists and turns, drawing in active interaction and participation from everyone in attendance. PLAY is guaranteed to inspire the experimental and creative spirit in all of us as it turns the traditional concert experience upside down.
Repertoire
Marc Mellits - BLACKITUDE (listen to duo version here)
Thomas Kotcheff - Bang Z (listen to original version here)
Ravel - Jeux D’eau (listen here)
Danny Clay - Playbook (listen here)
Viet Cuong - Wax and Wire (listen the Latitude 49 perform here)
INTERMISSION
Henry Brant - Music for a Five and Dime (listen here)
Chris Sies - “Day Trips” (PREMIERE)
Juri Seo - Canon, Rondeau, Fugue (listen to Latitude 49 perform here)
Steve Snowden - “Looner Eclipse” (watch tutorial here)
Pierce Gradone - Vamp (listen to Latitude 49 perform here)
this might hurt a little
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David Wilde -The Cellist of Sarajevo
Gabriella Smith - Number Nine
Christopher Cerrone - Double Happiness
Roshanne Etezady - Glint
Justin Rito - Reaching/Failing
Chris Sies - these (were) used to harm
Hope for
refuge
Identities
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Gabriella Smith - Huascarán
Annika Socolofsky - A Sense of Who
Viet Cuong - Wax and Wire
Phil Taylor - Emergence
Timothy Page - Humayan
Mark Kilstofte - Ballistic Etude 3.1
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Jennifer Higdon - Zaka
Natalie Moller - Fragments of the Cosmos
Joseph Bozich - Labyrinths
Messiaen - O Sacrum Convivium
Reinaldo Moya - Polythene Sonata Product
Virgil Moorefield - A Wish for the Displaced
Labyrinths
Of Curious Minds
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John Dorhauer - Puzzle Lunch Tulips Cheezeborger
Tomás I. Gueglio - Sextet II
Jared Miller - The Duality of Nostalgia
Virgil Moorefield - A Wish for the Displaced
Garrett Schumann - A 5-note Chord, as seen from the porch of a curious mind
Gabriella Smith - Huascarán
This concert features six groundbreaking commissions, illuminating a curious sonic mosaic. A selection of L49 favorites, all six of these works appear on our upcoming debut album, and explore uniquely attractive soundscapes.
Time Past & Time Present:
a musical remembering
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Nico Muhly - Doublespeak
Joan Tower - Petroushskates
George Crumb - Dream Sequence
Pierre Jalbert - Dome of Heaven from Visual Abstract
Jared Miller - Duality of Nostalgia
Brian Petuch - Frames
Perotin - Sederunt Principes
“Time Past and Time Present” is an exploration of the role of memory in our lives, our art, and our cultures. Music of living composers (along with one from the 12th century) will join with words and images creating a space for the summoning of memories and the consideration of what it means to remember.
The program will include both the playful and the solemn, engaging progressively with the subjects of reminiscence and personal narrative, the neuroscience of memory, nostalgia and traumatic memory, and music as cultural memory.
Featured composers include Brian Petuch and Jared Miller (works commissioned by Latitude 49), as well as Nico Muhly, George Crumb, and Joan Tower. The artwork of Hye Lee will also be featured, along with the words of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. But the program’s true materials will be you: your memories and your thoughts.
From Chicago…
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Barcrawl - Zac Lavender
Roshanne Etezady - Damaged Goods
John Dorhauer - Puzzle Lunch Tulips Cheezeborger
Tomás I. Gueglio - Sextet II
Marc Mellits - Platter of Discontent
New Digs
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Jennifer Higdon - Zaka
Reinaldo Moya - The Island with the Imaginary Moons from Imagined Archipelagos
Roshanne Etezady - Glint
Marc Mellits - Selections from Platter of Discontent and Tight Sweater
Stacy Garrop - Silver Dagger
Olivier Messiaen - Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus
Steve Mackey - Micro Concerto