Friday, November 4, 2005 | 8:00pm
Program Notes with Louis Andriessen, hosted by Evan Ziporyn at 7:00pm
Julia Wolfe The Vermeer Room (1989)
Evan Ziporyn The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute (2005)
Anne Harley, soprano
Louis Andriessen Trilogy of the Last Day (1997)*
Tomoko Mukaiyama, koto and piano

*North American Premiere
Members of the Boston Children's Chorus, Darren Dailey, Artistic Director

Gil Rose, conductor

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News and Press

[Concert Review] Project brings death to life in "Trilogy"

This season may bring no more important event than the American premiere of Louis Andriessen’s Trilogy of the Last Day, which was at the center of last night’s concert by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This terrifying hourlong work gathers texts from an almost impossibly wide variety of cultures and eras to ask a daringly simple question: How do we represent death to ourselves?

The Boston Globe Full review