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World Premiere of Judith Shatin's Ice Becomes Water Given by San Jose Chamber Orchestra on March 25
The World Premiere of Judith Shatin's Ice Becomes Water, for string orchestra and electronics, will be given by Barbara Day Turner and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra (which also commissioned the piece) on Sunday, March 25 @ 7 PM at the Trianon Theatre, 72 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA.
Judith writes, "Ice Becomes Water is scored for string orchestra and electronics that I fashioned from field recordings shared by glaciologist Oscar Glowacki, who studies the acoustic signatures of glaciers. It is well known that glaciers are melting at a dramatically increasing pace as the result of human-driven climate change. As they become water they raise sea levels, change currents, and affect the entire web of ecosystems across the world. My piece is a lament for our role in this process and a call to change...Ice Becomes Water was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, conductor Barbara Day Turner and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra." Read the composer's complete commentary about the music at http://judithshatin.com/ice-becomes-water-2/. Visit Judith Shatin at http://judithshatin.com/.
This will be part of the SJCO's A Touch of Tech concert, which also includes works by Thea Musgrave, Vivian Fung and William Susman. More about the event at https://sjco.org/.
Judith Shatin's music is renowned for its dramatic shape and imaginative blending of acoustic and digital media, as well as her work in each. Orchestras that have performed her music include the Denver, Houston, Illinois, Knoxville, Minnesota, National and Richmond Symphonies. Her music is internationally performed and has been featured at festivals in the Americas, East Asia and Europe. Visit her at http://judithshatin.com/.
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