The 21st Century Orchestra celebrates a project curated by the Brown University faculty composers with one of the country’s seminal large ensembles for contemporary music that asserts exciting paths for the future

The five works are heard in expert performances by one of the premiere symphonies devoted to modern music in the United States, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), led by Gil Rose

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On Book of Flowers, composer Adam Roberts reflects on the lineage of collections of music and the bond it cultivates with the performer. Roberts honors this tradition while taking it in his own direction, creating a work that revels in pianistic brilliance and intimate resonance

Performed by piano virtuoso Conrad Tao, Roberts explores an expansive range of expression and techniques on the keyboard, fashioning many short components into work of epic scope

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Ordway revels in ambiguity, drawing a fertile analogy to the creative process with the image of the "woods," an elemental domain that is at once foreign to those of us living in manmade environs but viscerally native to any creature whose roots trace back to our prehistoric forebears

Trumpeter Andy Kozar presents works that exist outside of the pulsing minimalist machine that has become associated with music for multiple iterations of one instrument. Kozar’s thoughtful curation is matched by his excellent performances across a wide range of music

Ordway focuses on resonance and emotional intensity, qualities which artistic director Beth Willer's Lorelei singers bring with unique skill to the genre of treble choirs

With music by Mauricio Kagel, Harrison Birtwistle, Eve Beglarian, Elizabeth Hoffman, Lei Liang & Eric Richards, Kozar's thoughtful curation & powerful performances make this far more than a survey of new trumpet music and continues to demonstrate why he's one of its most ardent & prolific advocates

Godfrey’s compositional approach to the format is steeped in the chamber music lineage, bringing a modernist sensibility to pitch and harmony within a frame that develops motives and journeys through structures in an organic way

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Featuring four of today's most acclaimed string quartets (Brentano, JACK, Mivos, & Formosa), the collection is a wonderful opportunity to hear Liang's aesthetic versatility in music for an iconic instrumentation, as well as his reverence for the music cultures which have significant meaning to him