III. Between Words and Worlds

Anna Handler, CONDUCTOR
Tony Arnold, SOPRANO
(2024-25 Collage Artistic Partner)

Collage New Music
Sarah Brady, FLUTE; Alexis Lanz, CLARINET; Heather Braun, VIOLIN; Jan Müller-Szeraws, CELLO; Christopher Oldfather, PIANO; Craig McNutt, PERCUSSION

The Nancy and Richard Lubin Concert

March 2, 2025, at 7:30pm EDT
Goethe-Institut Boston (Boston, MA)

Presented in partnership with Goethe-Institut Boston

Pre-Concert Talk at 6:30pm with Artistic Director Eric Nathan, composer Gabriela Ortiz and featured composers

$35 General Admission; $15 Students

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ABOUT

This concert features the Boston conducting debut of German-Colombian conductor, Anna Handler, currently the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Assistant Conductor. The program revolves around themes of language, memory, life, and death in the human and natural worlds, as well as the supernatural. Vocal works bookend the program: Kareem Roustom’s Xarja, which speaks of love, loss, and refuge, and Jörg Widmann’s Sieben Abgesänge auf eine tote Linde, a requiem for a tree, in part from the tree’s perspective.

Kareem Roustom

Olga Neuwirth

Gabriela Ortiz

Jingmian Gong (Collage Fellow)

Gabriella Smith

Jörg Widmann

PROGRAM

Kareem Roustom: Xarja (2017)
soprano and percussion

Olga Neuwirth: Magic Flu-Idity (2018)
flute and typewriter/wine glasses

Gabriela Ortiz: El águila bicéfala (2005)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano

Intermission

Jingmian Gong (2024 Collage Fellow), New Work (2025) world premiere (Collage Commission)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion

Gabriella Smith: Anthozoa (2018)
violin, cello, piano, percussion

Jörg Widmann: Sieben Abgesänge auf eine tote Linde (1997)
soprano, clarinet, violin, piano

The concert will conclude by 9:15 p.m.
Please join Collage for a reception following the performance