{"id":6068,"date":"2020-01-25T20:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2022-05-20T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:28:13","slug":"review-pcms-emerging-voices-ends-with-a-big-american-bang-including-new-songs-from-nico-muhly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-pcms-emerging-voices-ends-with-a-big-american-bang-including-new-songs-from-nico-muhly\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: PCMS \u2018Emerging Voices\u2019 ends with a big American bang, including new songs from Nico Muhly"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a><\/p>\n

By David Patrick Stearns<\/p>\n

The conclusion of a musical odyssey can\u2019t help but have its own mixture of exaltation, relief, and maybe incredulity over the size of the accomplishment \u2014 which was palpably the case when Philadelphia Chamber Music Society wrapped up its two-week, six-concert Emerging Voices: Art Song & Social Connection<\/em> project.<\/p>\n

The final concert on Friday at the Kimmel Center\u2019s Perelman Theater was among the most ambitious \u2014 titled The Rise of the American Voice \u2014 with the project\u2019s curator\/tenor Nicholas Phan<\/a> premiering a new work by Nico Muhly (known both for commissions by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera) amid a shifting cast of singers, including Corinne Winters. She stepped in with much unfamiliar repertoire after Melody Moore stepped out.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Where the concert became magical \u2014 and I don\u2019t use that word lightly \u2014 was in the three newer pieces. Tania Leon\u2019s 1994 \u201cOh Yemanja\u201d (Mother\u2019s Prayer) had free-floating imagery by Wole Soyinka, with beautifully molded vocal lines accompanied by haiku-like musical gestures by cello and piano. Caroline Shaw\u2019s 2019 \u201cAnd So\u201d had the kind of vocal lines that could have been written only by a singer (which she is), with self-authored texts riffing on Gertrude Stein\u2019s famous \u201cA rose is a rose\u201d quotation. In contrast to previous generations, Shaw was emotionally forthright, conveying great longing, some bitterness, and much in between. That piece, in an excellent performance by Winters and the Brooklyn Rider string quartet, rightly had the strongest audience reaction of the concert.<\/p>\n

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