Hub New Music

Wednesday / October 7, 2020 / 7 p.m.

With on-demand access available for 48 hours after the 7 p.m. premiere

 

Hub New Music
Music and Meaning: An Evening of Performance and Conversation

With
Michael Avitabile, founder and flutist of Hub New Music
Carlos Simon, composer
Wendy Wilson-Fall, Chair, Africana Studies, Lafayette College
Jeremy Zallen, Assistant Professor of History, Lafayette College

Visionary, bold, and imaginative ideas are the hallmarks of Hub New Music, contemporary trailblazers who take the quartet repertoire for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello to new heights. Through creative programming and ambitious commissioning projects, this quartet of “intrepids” (WQXR) champions the fluidity and diversity of today’s classical music landscape by forging new pathways in 21st-century repertoire.

This program, emblematic of Hub New Music’s far-reaching approach, offers a “first look” at a new work commissioned from composer Carlos Simon. Musically inspired by spirituals and liturgical music, Requiem for the Enslaved draws textual inspiration from historical documents detailing the sale of 272 enslaved people to pay the debts of Georgetown University, where the composer currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music. Lafayette College professors Wendy Wilson-Fall and Jeremy Zallen join Simon prior to the performance to discuss the import and impact of his research and music.

In Soul House, composer Robert Honstein uses the ancient world’s practice of providing the dead with a small dwelling for the afterlife to explore memory, reflection, and nostalgia. An extended love letter to the composer’s childhood home, each movement of Soul House depicts a different scene and feeling. “Next time Hub New Music offers a concert, go, listen, and be changed” (Boston Globe).

Program: Simon / Requiem for the Enslaved (2020, excerpt) // Honstein / Soul House (2017, excerpts)

Run time: Approximately 65 minutes

General public livestream access: $15
Lafayette students, faculty, and staff: log in with your Lafayette email to acquire tickets.

Enjoy Music and Meaning on your screen, wherever you are, as part of our virtual Fall 2020 season. Join us for the premiere at 7 p.m. on October 7, or watch at your convenience anytime up to 7 p.m. on October 9.

 

 

 

Requiem for the Enslaved was commissioned by Georgetown University with support
from the President’s Office and the committee for Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation.

Soul House was commissioned by the Cricket Foundation.