LOOK UP
PREMIERE INFO:
November 2023 // MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA
TOURING:
2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028
PROGRAM:
The program features Christopher Cerrone’s Beaufort Scales, a new 36-minute oratorio for eight voices and live electronics, commissioned by Lorelei Ensemble, that draws inspiration from various iterations of the Beaufort Wind Force Scale created by Sir Francis Beaufort in 1805, along with texts from Melville, Fitzgerald, and Anne Carson. According to composer Christopher Cerrone, “The piece tries to posit—through both historical sources and technological intervention—what increasingly tempestuous weather is doing to our lives.”
The first half of the program includes Meredith Monk’s “Other Worlds Revealed” and “Earth Seen from Above,” from Atlas, Molly Herron’s “Stellar Atmospheres,” and Elijah Daniel Smith’s “Suspended in Spin” (Lorelei commission).
“The idea of ‘Look Up’ is about looking up to the sky and seeing we are one entity in this expansive universe, but also looking up and seeing what is happening on the planet right here,” says Artistic Director Beth Willer.
FORCES:
LORELEI ENSEMBLE, Beth Willer, conductor
Ross Wightman, Sound
Lawrence Ware, Video and Lighting
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