Electro-Colors
$20 ($10 student/senior)
Huck Hodge — Zeremonie
Pierre Boulez — Dérive 1
Tristan Murail — Treize couleurs du soleil couchant
Huck Hodge – Zeremonie
Pierre Boulez – Dérive 1
Tristan Murail – Treize couleurs du soleil couchant
Huck Hodge – Alêtheia (US premiere)
Seattle Modern Orchestra opens its 2014–2015 season with a US premiere from Rome Prize winning American composer Huck Hodge. Hodge’s Alêtheia for ensemble is a communicative, powerful and dramatic work that recently won the International Society for Contemporary Music’s League of Composers Competition. Also on this program are works from two celebrated composers, Pierre Boulez and Tristan Murail. These two works, composed only 6 years apart, helped shape the progression of avant-garde music in France during that time. Boulez’s jubilatory late period work Dérive 1 (1984) exults warmth and radiance with simmering and shimmering textures of ornate melodic figures supported by rich harmonic progression. Murail’s 1978 work Treize couleurs du soleil couchant (thirteen colors of sundown) is a key piece from the early Spectralist movement that plunges the audience into the evocative resonances of sound.
Pre-concert multimedia presentation by co-Artistic Director Jérémy Jolley at 7:30 p.m.
About Seattle Modern Orchestra
Founded in 2010, Seattle Modern Orchestra (SMO) is the only large ensemble in the Pacific Northwest solely dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Led by co-artistic directors Julia Tai and Jérémy Jolley, SMO commissions and premieres new works from an international lineup of composers, in addition to presenting important pieces from the contemporary repertoire that are rarely if ever heard by Seattle audiences. The ensemble "operates at that exciting cusp between old and new, between tradition and innovation" (Vanguard Seattle) curating new sounds and experiences for concert goers in the region.
SMO provides audiences with performances of the best in contemporary chamber and orchestral music, and develops radio talks, lectures, and other forms of outreach in an accessible and inviting format all designed to expand the listener’s appreciation and awareness of the music of today.
http://www.seattlemodernorchestra.org/