Opening Concert - La persistance, l’éphémère

This first concert of the anniversary season will offer a vibrant tribute to one of the great composers of our time, Harrison Birtwistle, who passed away last spring. The NEM will perform Secret Theater, which had its Montreal premiere in 1994. Also on the program are Las Meninas (excerpt) by John Rea, a work for piano orchestrated for the NEM by François Vallières, as well as the premieres of Contingency Icons by Samuel Andreyev and La persistance, l’éphémère by Tomás Diaz Villegas, the NEM’s composer-in-residence.