After postponing its January 31 concert to the autumn, Earplay is overjoyed to return to the concert hall on March 21, and will do so with a lively program that features two world premieres commissioned by Earplay, among a full roster of composers whose music the ensemble will be performing for the first time. The evening will highlight Tomasz Skweres’ 2021 Aird Prize-winning “Elusive Thoughts,” on a program that includes works by Marcos Balter, Josiah Tayag Catalan, Emma Logan, Allison Loggins-Hull, and Carlos Simon.
Traveling across an ever-changing terrain, the program will bring the audience through textures that are rhythmic, melancholic, piercing, calming, whimsical and nostalgic, and which provide the Earplay musicians with a rich palette from which to express their musicality.
In addition to the Aird Prize winner, the concert will include Marcos Balter’s enigmatic “à vis”; Simone Cardini’s “Deriva, in margine a una lontananza, dimentica,” a sharply-contrasting exploration of the importance of avoiding stagnation in life; Josiah Tayag Catalan’s “Light, Smoke, and Siren Glow of Mist,” inspired by Barbara Jane Reyes's poem “The True Color of The Sea” (from which the concert takes its title); Emma Logan’s “A Certain Slant of Light,” also inspired by a poem, Emily Dickinson's “There's a certain Slant of light”; Alissa Loggins-Hull’s “Homeland,” work that questions the meaning of home when it is in political turmoil, or devastated by a natural or human disaster; and Carlos Simon’s “Lickety Split,” a whimsical homage to his grandfather. Please join us for passionate performances of this bold new music, and help us to celebrate our return to live performances.