Did you know that composer Ruth Crawford Seeger is one of the premier voices in American modernism? She was the first woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, traveling to Europe, where she composed her most famous work, her string quartet.
Our …of dark and bright program includes her Andante for Strings, which is an expansion of the slow movement of that earlier string quartet.
Read MorePITTSBURGH, PA - (02.12.20) - on March 21 and 22, 2020, the Resonance Chamber Orchestra and Chorus will return to the concert hall with … of Dark and Bright featuring one of the first US performances of Missy Mazzoli’s remarkable new concerto for double bass Dark with Excessive Bright and Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands for chorus and strings. With further works by Ottorino Respighi, Chen Yi and Gabriela Lena Frank, the whole of this program explores modern-era works that have been inspired by music and musical traditions of the past.
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