THE ARC IN THE SKY
Saturday, July 27 @ 4:30pm Tinworks Art, Bozeman
Performed in Chris Fraser’s light installation, Asterisms.
The Warren Miller Performing Arts Center presents The Crossing & Roots in the Sky in a performance of Kile Smith’s The Arc in the Sky at Tinworks Art.
“It seems to me to be the perfect piece to bring to this transitioning place, to remind us that our history is not in buildings or even in plots of land that humans imagine we can 'own'; it is always in the lives lived by the people, and the animals, and the plants that have graced this piece of earth.”
— Donald Nally, Conductor
Kile Smith’s The Arc in the Sky was commissioned by The Crossing and premiered in June 2018 at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia. A concert-length work written for unaccompanied choir, The Arc in the Sky sets texts by the enigmatic Robert Lax. “As soon as I read Lax, I knew I wanted to set his words to music,” writes composer Kile Smith. “The ecstasy of being carried along is what I wanted to capture, the feeling not so much of a performance, or of listening to a performance, but of performers and listeners together being caught up in something bigger than them all.”
Program: The Arc in the Sky (northwest premiere) by Kile Smith
Chris Fraser’s installation, Asterisms, at Tinworks Art.
Concert artwork designed by Elizabeth Haidle — www.ehaidle.com / www.docucomix.com