Mezzo-soprano Megan Moore returns for her second appearance in OSL’s Visionary Sounds Series, in a program pairing the music of Hildegard von Bingen with works by Sofia Gubaidulina and Sarah Kirkland Snider. Hildegard’s texts are heard in new arrangements together with Gubaidulina’s Aus den Visionen der Hildegard von Bingen and String Quartet No. 2, and Snider’s Caritas. The program traces a line from […]
This program marks Philip Glass’s 90th birthday with a performance of his String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima.” The work draws on music from Glass’s score for the Paul Schrader film and has become one of his most frequently performed chamber pieces. Cast in four movements, it translates material originally conceived for film into a compact, self-contained form.
Works by Kaija Saariaho and Meredith Monk are brought together in a program shaped by two singular musical voices. Saariaho’s Light and Matter and Die Aussicht are heard with Monk’s Stringsongs and excerpts from Book of Days. Both composers are known for their close attention to timbre and texture, often extending traditional vocal and instrumental techniques. This performance invites audiences into richly imagined and deeply individual sound […]