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Hear Now Music Festival
El Festival de Música Hear Now, creado en 2011, se centra en los compositores que viven y trabajan en el área de Los Ángeles, interpretados por destacados músicos y conjuntos de Los Ángeles. A lo largo de los últimos doce años, el Festival de Música Hear Now ha presentado 214 obras de 168 compositores con sede en Los Ángeles. Hear Now sirve como un espacio de incubación para descubrir nuevos talentos. Las obras se presentan de forma anónima a través de una convocatoria abierta y son revisadas por un comité de diez personas. De esta manera, numerosos compositores, tanto emergentes como de mitad de carrera, han logrado captar la atención de la crítica y del público.
*Programming and artists subject to change, please refer to the participating organization’s calendar listing for the most up-to-date program.
Eventos
California Festival
HEAR NOW, además de incluir dos composiciones encargadas recientemente para el Festival de California, presenta un programa de composiciones de ocho compositores de Los Ángeles. Las piezas serán interpretadas por los tres conjuntos residentes de HEAR NOW: el Cuarteto Lyris, Brightwork new music y el Conjunto Vocal HEX, así como otros destacados músicos de Los Ángeles.
Obra(s)/Compositor(es)
FALLEN SKIN, FLYING WINGS, 2019
Moni Jasmine GUO
ROCK A BYE BYE, 2020 (HEAR NOW MUSIC COMMISSION)
Nina SHEKHAR
KYRIE-MERCY-ANA M, 2020
Michael ROTH
CONTINUUM: CAUSE AND EFFECT, 2023 (HEAR NOW MUSIC COMMISSION)
Arash MAJD
INSPIRED BY DOUBT, 2020
Hugh LEVICK
SELECTIONS FROM ARKHIPOV, 2022
Peter KNELL
ARTIFACTS
Isaac SCHANKLER
THRESHOLD, 2019
Kay RHIE
Notas del programa
Moni Jasmine Guo’s work Fallen Skin, Flying Wings was written to send the message to those who are struggling or maybe even discouraged with life— the fallen will one day stand up from the ground to find they have wings and can fly.
Nina Shekhar ‘s Rock a Bye Bye for the Lyris String Quartet was commissioned by HEAR NOW in 2020 and was inspired by friends of hers who were expecting during the pandemic. Nina writes: “I wondered what it felt like to bring new life into a world that suddenly feels so different.”
Michael Roth composed KYRIE-MERCY-ANA M, an a cappella motet for eight voices that combines sacred texts with English secular texts assembled and created by Alice Ripley. This KYRIE, the opening movement from their music/theatre piece LANDSCAPE THE TAR ROOF TREE, is a reflection and meditation on the great Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta. It will be performed by HEX.
Dr. Arash Madj’s Continuum: Cause and Effect was commissioned by HEAR NOW in 2022 and is from a series of works that employ forward motion and continuity of sound to create structure.
Requiring a pianist with Yevgeniy Milyavskiy’s exceptional sensibility and talent, Hugh Levick’s Inspired By Doubt is aggressive, lyrical, explosive and barely audible in turns as it enacts a fragmented, gestural drama.
Excerpts from Peter Knell Knell’s opera ARKHIPOV conjure a moving portrait of the Russian chief of staff responsible for defusing a world-ending nuclear conflict during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
About Artifacts, composer Isaac Schankler says it is "in a sense about the collision of time scales that often happens when electronic music and acoustic music meet. When I mashed these things together, byproducts popped out, and I kept some of these artifacts.”
In Kay Rhie’s Threshold, initial materials “trigger” reactions, the following materials “respond”, and in the final section this material takes a new course—unpredicted at the beginning of the piece—which carries it to a place of faint memory of the past.