SATURDAY / MAY 6 / ODC THEATER / 7:30 PM
"I opened a window and daylight fell on my cheek. I fell to my knees, immobile, and wept... I looked at the sea's horizon, and saw the world ..." –Utnapishtim from the epic of Gilgamesh
After a storm so violent it kills the world and frightens the gods, Utnapishtim sees what remains. Everything he sees is a new and empty world that Gerard Grisey attempts to realize in his piece Four Songs To Cross the Threshold. After Everything presents a concert which explores the themes of death and transition in this piece and others in the program. Death from a place of anxiety, a place of love, and a place of sympathy; from the deeply personal death of a friend, to the powerful loss of an influential but unknown figure, to the tragic, long-terms disappearances and deaths of civilizations, languages, and worlds.
FLUTES Jessie Nucho CLARINETS Sophie Huet, Andrew Friedman SAXOPHONES Michael Hernandez, David Cortez TRUMPETS Cortez Montalbo TUBAS Don Benham, Jonathan Seiberlich PERCUSSION Jimmy Chan, Tommy Kesecker, Mika Nakamura HARP Anna Maria Mendieta VIOLIN Marian Yang CELLO Evan Kahn BASS Eugéne Theríault SOPRANO Ann Moss CONDUCTOR Matthew Cmiel