Curator’s note
This evening’s concert explores the relationship of music to ultimate and immanent realms of signification. The first part of the concert brings different traditions into focus. Vera Brozzoni presents and explores the mystical vision of Teresa of Avila through the sung voice in Interior Castle; Graham Hair sets texts from Sunni and Ismaili traditions for vocal ensemble in Ecstasy and Enlightenment; and Nicolas Freeman concludes the first half with a sonic and visual exploration of the Hindu understanding of reality, wherein all life is interconnected.
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The second part of the evening is framed by the notion of repetition. No Trouble in South Kensington is a composition by Ruaidhri Mannion written for cello: through repetition, it seeks to explore the sense of ‘home’ found in the immediate sense of the spaces we live in. Marcello Messina’s work, Sumnjiv Smisao Slobode, places repetition against the backdrop of the notion of freedom, both freedom in relation to the Divine Nothing and personal freedom. The concert concludes with a setting of Lord Byron’s The Dream: this semi-staged performance by Jason Dixon and Edgar Curtis draws on music’s capacity to set different timelines in conjunction and attempts to take the audience ‘beyond’ themselves. Repetition plays a vital role.
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