Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes鈥� a space probe hurtles outwards from our solar system; its cargo, a golden record. That鈥檚 the starting point for Caroline Shaw鈥檚 The Listeners: a new oratorio in which Shaw鈥檚 intensely communicative music carries the words of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Carl Sagan into a future bounded only by our imagination, and our courage.
This is sure to be a high point of this Pulitzer prize-winning composer鈥檚 Barbican residency. But when it comes to our shared humanity, the music of the last century has endless stories to tell, and the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra鈥檚 Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska has paired 'The Listeners' with a song of defiance from Ukraine, before Randall Goosby soars free in the tenderness and rapture of Barber鈥檚 evergreen Violin Concerto.
This concert will be introduced in a free pre-concert talk at 18:30 in the Barbican Centre's Fountain Room. Join composer Caroline Shaw as she discusses her intergalactic oratorio 'The Listeners' with Barbican Classical Programmer Kirsty Harris.
