Seattle Modern Orchestra: The Invisible
$25 ($15 seniors, $10 students)
Chinary Ung — Still Life after Death
George Crumb — Eleven Echoes of Autumn
Yiğit Kolat — Kav Yankıları / Echoes of Tinder
Yiğit Kolat – Kav Yankıları / Echoes of Tinder
George Crumb – Eleven Echoes of Autumn
Chinary Ung – Still Life after Death
Rebecca Saunders – A Visible Trace
“Invisible threads are the strongest ties,” Friedrich Nietzsche said. Seattle Modern Orchestra's season opens remembering, commemorating, and empathizing with the invisible. The evening includes Yiğit Kolat’s Kav Yankıları / Echoes of Tinder, written in memory of the victims of the 1993 massacre in Sivas, Turkey of prominent intellectuals and artists by a mob of Islamic fundamentalists. The night continues with George Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn that contemplates the significance of poet Federico Garcia Lorca’s motto-quote “… and the broken arches where time suffers.” Chinary Ung’s Still Life After Death dramatically evokes a Cambodian Buddhist ritual where a monk assists a dying person to leave life behind. A Visible Trace, a piece by Rebecca Saunders, is introduced by Italian writer Italo Calvino’s statement, “The word connects the visible with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge over an abyss.” Their first concert will try to bridge that abyss through music.