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Sospeso collaborates closely with composers, often dedicating an entire evening to a single composer’s music—a chance to contemplate the diversity within the imagination of a single artist, much like an art exhibition. The involvement of the composer often extends into rehearsal periods and recording sessions. The ensemble has worked personally with major composers, including
Pierre Boulez, Elliott
Carter, Esa-Pekka Salonen (as composer and conductor),
Julia Wolfe, Anne
LeBaron, Tristan Murail, Helmut
Lachenmann, Marc-André
Dalbavie, Bernard Rands, Christian
Wolff, Howard Shore, and Brian
Ferneyhough.
Sospeso’s commitment to the encounter of Western and non-Western musical traditions has been expressed recently in performances of
Andriessen’s Tao, for koto soloist and Japanese vocalist; of
Sir John Tavener’s Pilgrimage, for Farsi soprano, choir, and orchestra;
Noreen’s The Wind Will Carry
Us, a setting of the Persian poet Forough
Farrokhzad, which was covered worldwide by the BBC Iranian service; and Cody’s
Sol, a work combining Western instruments with three different flutes—Turkish, Japanese, and Navajo.
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