Breakthroughs
Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, 8:00pm

Tsai Performance Center (685 Commwealth Ave., Boston)
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Program notes and bios: Learn more about the works and composers featured in Breakthroughs.

John Harbison
Mirabai Songs
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Click here to listen to an excerpt of Mirabai Songs with Dawn Upshaw and the Orchestra of St. Luke's.

Peter Lieberson
Raising the Gaze

Andy Vores
Umberhulk
Click here to listen to an excerpt of Umberhulk.

and 3 world premieres by the Rapido! Composition Contest Northeast Semi-finalists:
Mark Berger: Dream Dances world premiere
Derek Hurst: Pas de Trois world premiere
Eric Segerstrom: Indecisive Dances world premiere

An intrepid spirit characterizes BMV’s season-opening concert “Breakthroughs.” Mezzo-soprano Krista River joins the ensemble for John Harbison’s Mirabai Songs, a sensual depiction of the rebellious 16th-century Indian poet and mystic Mirabai. In his septet Raising the Gaze, Peter Lieberson takes inspiration from an unusual pairing: Buddhist themes and medieval dance music. An underworld ogre emerges landside in Andy Vores’ darkly-scored Umberhulk. The three Northeast Semi-finalists of the nationwide Rapido!® Composition Contest present the breakthrough results of their intensive 14-day compositional sojourn.

Meet the Rapido!® Northeast Semi-finalists:

Rapido!® Composition Contest is founded and sustained by the Atlanta Chamber Players and The Antinori Foundation, with major support from A Mad Idea Foundation, The Bay and Paul Foundations, and National Sponsor Delta Air Lines.