Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble concludes its 50th Anniversary Season with Hub of the Musiverse 4, the fourth presentation of our heralded series celebrating works by composers from all over the world who have come through Boston and the United States to share their artistry through new sonic ideas.

The program features former Artistic Director Yu-Hui Chang’s significant solo cello work Alter Ego, an “inward-facing work” exploring dialogue between the performer and their instrument. Victor Marquez-Barrios’ One More Prayer, written during the Covid-19 pandemic, engages in musical dialogue with works by J. S. Bach and Alban Berg that were also written “in the face of health-related adversity.” Gilad Cohen’s Firefly Elegy mirrors the life cycle of the insect’s metamorphosis through its four life stages. Andreia Pinto Correia’s Pleistocene Landscapes for solo alto flute examines metamorphosis—geomorphological change in Lake Mungo in Australia—on a longer time scale. Michael-Thomas Foumai's Printing Kapa derives from the geometric patterns of a native Hawaiian fabric made from the bark of trees, referencing an art form prevalent in the Pacific and through Polynesia. Finally, Lei Liang’s My Windows draws inspiration sources as diverse as Tian (“heaven), Vishnu Purana, and the woods.

Special birthday tribute compositions from former artistic director and general manager Emily Koh and Peter Van Zandt Lane complete our program in this celebratory season!

Featuring:

Compositions

Yu-Hui Chang: Alter Ego

Victor Marquez-Barrios: One More Prayer

Andreia Pinto Correia: Pleistocene Landscape

Michael-Thomas Foumai: Printing Kapa

Gilad Cohen: Firefly Elegy

Lei Liang: My Windows

Emily Koh: Whispering Fossils

Peter Van Zandt Lane: 50for50

Musicians

Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, alto flute

Amy Advocat, clarinet

Charles Overton, harp

Donald Berman, piano

Omar Chen Guey, violin

Anne Black, viola

Stephen Marotto, cello

Orlando Cela, conductor

The concert is made possible by the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the Watertown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency; the Social Action Committee of First Parish Watertown; and the Alice M. Ditson Fund.