BMOP begins its 23rd season with “Time Release” on Friday, October 19 at 8pm in Jordan Hall, a concert that juxtaposes two concertos for uncommon solo instruments: the American premiere of Steven Mackey’s Time Release with solo percussionist Colin Currie, and Hannah Lash performing the Boston premiere of her own Concerto No. 2 for Harp and Orchestra. Rounding out the program are Mackey’s Tonic and Vision Machine, an architecturally inspired work by Harold Meltzer (CRF 2017).
Of his skyscraper-inspired chamber orchestra work Vision Machine, Harold comments:
“I was confounded by the more than sixteen hundred colorless windowpanes, tilted in every possible direction at every possible angle, reflecting shades from the Hudson River and the West Side Highway. […] Would it be this disorienting from the inside? In the fall of 2015 I was invited up to an apartment that belonged to a friend’s friend. From the black hallways I was emptied into an apartment at the inside of the compound eye, seeing air and sea and feeling not that I was hurtling toward them, but teetering there at the edge. Several times I’ve composed pieces of music that respond to works of architecture. […] The form of each work is adapted to the way I was led, by the architect, to experience the space, the way my eyes followed its cavities, the paths I walked.”
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