“Exile | Banishment | Home”
What does it mean to be home and not yet home? E4TT explores this duality with Shostakovich’s From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79 (selections), sung in the poetry’s original Yiddish language and the World Premiere of Skazka (fairytale), twisted Russian folktales reinterpreted and subverted by emerging composer Alex Malinas with images by Aria Nunez after Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin, along with new music by Mary Bianco, Andrea Casarrubios, David Garner, and Stella G. Gitelman Willoughby.
E4TT (soprano Nanette McGuinness, cellist Megan Chartier, and pianist Margaret Halbig) will be joined by soprano Carina Kahane, mezzo-soprano Melinda Martinez Becker, narrator Alex Malinas, violinist Aria Shum, flute/piccolo player Taylor Robinson, clarinetist Zoe King, and percussionist Eddie Virtgaym. The concert will be performed at Old First Concerts in San Francisco and also livestreamed on O1C’s YouTube channel, with a pre-concert composer talk and co-presented by KlezCalifornia.
