NOVA Chamber Music Series to feature two new commissioned works from GLFCAM (The Utah Review)

Spring 2024

by Les Roka

NOVA Chamber Music Series’ final Libby Gardner series concert of the 2023-24 season is nicely timed for this month’s celebrations of Earth Day and the ever-intensifying focus on changes in the climate and environmental impacts. The concert will feature two new commissioned works, courtesy of Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music’s Composing Earth cohort. They are Night Fire by Akshaya Avril Tucker, scored for the Fry Street Quartet and tenor Thomas Glenn, who is on the Utah State University faculty, and They Need to Remember by Aida Shirazi, scored for the quartet and soprano/mezzo-soprano Jin-Xiang Yu. Texts for both works were created specifically for the Composing Earth project.

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