JULY 7 & 8

8:00PM

CITY THEATRE MAINSTAGE  

Antares
Carter Pann

Antares refers to the super-giant star in the Scorpio constellation. The music here is celestial, often evoking a cosmic sense, and a feel of stellar beauty and stagnancy.

Words of Love
James Mobberly

(A PNME Commission/World Premiere) My father: wordsmith, philosopher, lover of learning; yet his most meaningful words were most often about the love of his life for 61 years. Near the end he lost his words, but not the love that inspired them.

Night Music
Thomas Albert 

(A PNME Commission/World Premiere) Night Music is composed in seven movements. The first, fourth and seventh are nocturnes, describing a stillness in which every motion and sound are magnified by their isolation. The second and sixth movements illustrate the extremes of arctic night. Stolen Night borrows a little night musical material to limn a world at the summer solstice, when the sun won’t set. The unending darkness of the winter solstice frames the waves and streamers of the northern lights in Aurora. Denizens of the night inspire the third and sixth movements, where a nightmare erupts in Incubus, Nightingale is a playful homage, with recorded and transcribed birdsong laid over a slowly emerging presentation of Joseph Lamb’s 1915 Ragtime Nightingale. Night Music was commissioned by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble for its 30th anniversary season of concerts in 2006.