For the American composer Douglas Boyce, writing music is an act of philosophising. Each of the recent vocal chamber works gathered on this album revolves around a distinctive stylistic orientation and scoring. The effect is not merely an array of varying sound environments but an interrogation of the nature of language – musical and verbal, and the potential interlockings between these conduits of meaning – along with its limits and liberations.
Performances and Premieres in Fall 2024
The movement to fall gets one thinking: "For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells" as a colorful wag once put it.
There’s much to anticipate and reflect on, from NY to Portland to Brazil, and places in between.
