Hosted by composer Seth Boustead, Relevant Tones is dedicated to presenting a plurality of voices, engaging with the world, and presenting classical music, in all its various guises, as a living art form. The theme of this event is astrology. Astrology inspired music by Marc Mellits, Sufjan Stevens and Peri Mauer will be performed by Peter Ferry, Osso Quartet and Ford Fourqurean. Two lucky audience members will have their birth charts realized musically in real-time by astrologers Rebecca Gordon and San Reynolds.
PROGRAM
Sun in Virgo, by Peri Mauer
Zodiac, by Marc Mellits
Run Rabbit Run (excerpts) by Sufjan Stevens
Enjoy Your Rabbit
Year of the Rooster
Year of the Ox
Year of the Horse
Year of the Boar
PERFORMERS
Peter Ferry, marimba
Ford Fourqurean, clarinet
Osso String Quartet
Award presented by Henry Threadgill
Ilaria Loisa Hawley
Quando L'acqua riflette (When the Water Reflects)
Performed by Face The Music
Isabella Caurucci, flute
Yusei Hata, melodica
Oriana Hawley, viola
John Waller, triangle
Vasudevan Panicker, coach
Born in 2009, Ilaria Loisa Hawley is the recipient of a 2019 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the inaugural recipient of Claire Chase's Pnea Foundation Young Flutist Award. Ilaria's music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic and Face the Music, and she is a composition student of Mathew Fuerst and a flute student of Zara Lawler. She attends PS 314 Muscota New School and enjoys drawing, drama, reading, rock climbing, and making earrings.