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Saturday, May 25, 2019 @ 7:30pm First Baptist Church, Bozeman
Sunday, May 26, 2019 @ 7:30pm First Baptist Church, Bozeman

What are these wounds in the midst of your hands? 

This is the central question of Caroline Shaw's six-movement cantata To the Hands, and the focal point of our program. To the Hands was written as a response to Dieterich Buxtehude's 1680 cantata of the same name and the result is a unified but often jarring re-imagining of 17th-century music in the bracing language of a 21st-century composer, a work that turns inward and rethinks its intention. Caroline writes:

It settles finally on an inversion of the question, so that we reflect, "What are these wounds in the midst of our hands?" We notice what may have been done to us, but we also question what we have done and what our role has been in these wounds we see before us.

Program:

Lament for Pasiphaë (from Mid-Winter Songs) by Morten Lauridsen
Ad manus (from Membra Jesu Nostri) by Dieterich Buxtehude
To the Hands (northwest premiere) by Caroline Shaw
just (after song of songs) by David Lang
The stars shine (from The Consolation of Apollo) by Kile Smith

with Cortney Bury, bass, Elliot Harrison, violin, Cami Kohler, violin, Mary Landeen, viola, Peter Landeen, cello, Matthew O'Sullivan, organ, Jeff Vick, percussion, and Laurel Yost, piano