Friday, September 25, 2009
8 pm
Tsai Performance Center
at Boston University
685 Commonwealth Ave.

BMV kicks off its 41st season with works by four American composers, each exploring the rhythms and grooves that meter our lives.

“Orderly, and out of long habit, my heart continues to beat,” writes Louise Glück, whose poems are set by John Harbison in The Seven Ages. The composer regards Glück’s words as “clear, strongly placed, deeply felt, vivid – all the things needed to suggest rhythm, melody, and a kind of ‘symphonic’ structure.” The Seven Ages receives its Boston premiere and features acclaimed mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal.

The penetrating rhythms of Ghanaian drumming underlie Michael Gandolfi’s Grooved Surfaces. Elliott Carter inspires dialogue in a unique rhythmic language between three pairs of instruments in his Triple Duo. Also featured is a newly commissioned work by long-time friend of BMV Richard Cornell.

This concert has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of "American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius."

*Commission funded in part by a grant from the MetLife Creative Connections program of Meet the Composer, Inc., and the New England Foundation for the Arts, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies and the National Endowment for the Arts.