Duo Perdendosi presents a new storytelling concert on nature, destruction, and hope.
Program
Part I.
Kala Ramnath - Aalap and Tarana
Reading: “I cannot find a tone” by Veryan Haysom*
Fu-Tong Wong - Suite: A Dream of the Motherland
III. Remembrance
Joe Hisaishi/Wesley Chu - “Legend of Ashitaka” from Princess Mononoke
Part II.
Fazil Say - Sonata No.2 “Mount Ida”*
I. Destruction of Nature
II. Wounded Birds
III. Rite of Hope
Activity: “Wanting to Start Again” Recipe Cards
Dinuk Wijeratne - Violin Sonata
III. Resilience
Activity: Trading Cards
Fu-Tong Wong - Suite: A Dream of the Motherland
I. South of the Yangtse River
II. Sheng Dance
III. Remembrance
IV. Song of the Wagon-driver
V. Hand-Drum Dance
Activity: A Gift to Our Tree
*”I cannot find a tone”
by Veryan Haysom
We are all in this alone.
Holding – listening into absence.
The continuous silence of the distant freeway
opens passages –
invisible stirrings, deep forest fog of tide-scented pines.
Moss clouds shroud familiar contours of night’s garden.
Mist absorbs skin’s surface, emulsifies all singularity,
extrudes unease at the clarity
of small soft sound. Holding –
waiting – at the liminal line of dawn
for the relief of a voice, a touch – a danger that we know.
A bark-backed Brown Creeper’s
high, thin notes jumble into a multitude of melody –
a single strand of separate songs
lifted as grace to flightless skies
that pins us in the unwanted stillness
of selves we cannot face.
(The title quotes Anne Enright, New York Review of Books, Pandemic Journal, April 23, 2020.)
**Notes by Fazil Say: ”Due to illegal deforestation in the nature reserve of Mount Ida, a mountain between Canakkale and Balikesir in Turkey, Fazil Say spontaneously gave an open-air concert on 18 August 2019. The artistic idea behind the concert was to listen to the music of the trees and all forest inhabitants. The Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano op. 82, "Mount Ida", composed after that concert, hence addresses this idea of life and the preservation of life in music. It describes the existence and survival of trees, birds, turtles, squirrels, and many other creatures in integrity.”