Blooming Flowers: Music by Women Composers
Ensemble for These Times performs the world premiere of Chinese composer Weiwei Miao’s Blooming Flowers, Full Moon for piano trio, along with works by 8 living women composers:
- Pulitzer-winning (first in music for a woman) Ellen Taafe Zwillich: Lament
- American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Walter Hinrichsen Award and Miriam Gideon Prize Victoria Bond: Binary
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Chen Yi: Ji Dong Nuo
- Opera America Discovery Grant Lori Laitman: selections from The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs
- Kronos Fifty for the Future Aleksandra Vrebalov: Passion Revisited
- Connecticut Artist Fellow Jessica Rudman: Times of Speaking and Silence
- Theatre composer Ellen Mandel: songs
- Canadian Guggenheim Fellow Vivian Fung Keeping Time
- Audrey Call: The Witch of Harlem
Musicians: Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Anne Lerner-Wright, cello; Dale Tsang, piano; and guest violinist Ilana Blumberg