Ten Thousand Birds is based on the songs of birds that are native to or passing through the region where the work is performed. Once again, John Luther Adams seeks a musical connection to nature, a central theme throughout his work. The focus is on the subtle details of birdsong. Time is not measured; each page of the score forms…

Based on the philosophy of Gaston Bachelard, this Naxos Hall Concert explores the phenomenon of liminal spaces – spaces between dream and reality, materiality and imagination. Within these fields of tension, sound becomes architecture and light becomes a shaping element of space. Moving between fantasy and hallucination, the avant-pop work Growth and Phantasm by composer Zeynep Toraman addresses the now-discontinued…