October 16th, 2025 — Today was the world premiere of Angélica Negrón’s (CRF 2023) For Everything You Keep Losing at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which transformed the concert hall into an elegy for the sounds of a vanishing world. Commissioned for the orchestra’s 125th anniversary, the piece wove together choir, orchestra, and field recordings—from Puerto Rico’s rainforests, ocean depths, and post-industrial waterways—to reflect on the ecological and human losses brought by climate change and displacement. Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, layered whale calls, frog croaks, and fragments of poetry into an otherworldly soundscape that was both personal and planetary. “It’s about the loss of how the sonic landscape is shifting,” she said to NPR North Texas, describing the work as a kind of requiem for what can no longer be heard. In Dallas, the performance became a meditation on memory and resilience—a reminder, through sound, of what endures and what is slipping away.
