The 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey returns to Houston with a major new work for solo piano composed for Sarah Rothenberg.
Sorey and Rothenberg’s deep musical relationship grew out of their work together on the DACAMERA-Rothko Chapel commission of “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife),” and it was during their performances at New York’s Park Avenue Armory that Sorey first conceived of this piece. The intensity and hyper-sensitivity of Sorey’s music corresponds to Rothenberg’s pianism, and this ambitious solo work probes emotional depths and upends our sense of time. Rothenberg opens the program with Arnold Schoenberg’s six little piano pieces, Expressionist miniatures that contain worlds. For this unique recital, The Menil Collection’s foyer is transformed into an intimate in-the-round performance space.
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