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ResWorks on WQED Performance in Pittsburgh this Friday! 🎶

 

Hear This Love Between Us this Friday on WQED-FM!

This Love Between Us at Trinity Cathedral in February 2024 📸 by Alisa Innocenti



Tune in to WQED FM’s Performance in Pittsburgh THIS FRIDAY, February 20, at 7:00 pm to hear Resonance Works' 2024 performance of This Love Between Us, a choral orchestral program featuring Bach's Magnificat, Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity (her music will be featured in our upcoming concert, Requiem for Water!), and Nkeiru Okoye's Breaking Bread. You’ll also hear the 2019 premiere of Nancy Galbraith’s Flute Concerto, which we’ll reprise in Requiem for Water (keep reading to learn more about this special commission).


Audiences described This Love Between Us as “a spiritual as well as a musical experience,” and we agree! This special program highlights the common message that runs through all major world religions: to love one another, while weaving together elements of western and Indian classical music.


This Love Between Us featured a quintet of esteemed vocal and instrumental soloists with our Resonance Chamber Orchestra and Festival Chorus, all conducted by Artistic & General Director Maria Sensi Sellner.


In a time of division, This Love Between Us is a welcome and much-needed message of unity. 


Tune in to 89.3 on your FM radio dial or stream live at wqedfm.org to hear this powerful program - this Friday, February 20 at 7:00pm!

Nancy Galbraith on her Flute Concerto:


One of the centerpieces of our Requiem for Water concerts on March 6 & 8 is the Flute Concerto by Pittsburgh’s own Nancy Galbraith (who is also Resonance Work’s most performed composer!).  We commissioned and premiered the concerto in 2019 with another familiar face, flutist Lindsey Goodman.  


Galbraith wrote the concerto with Goodman in mind, saying, “I prefer to write for musicians I know — for friends and colleagues. I feel so blessed that I live and work in Pittsburgh, where there is a treasure chest full of world-class musicians, who are in fact, also my friends, and just really wonderful people.”


The concerto reflects Goodman’s bright and energetic disposition and shows off some of her signature specialties, including electroacoustics and extended techniques. “I engaged in many conversations with her about her unique approach to performance,” says Galbraith, “and you'll know when you hear it that the concerto is a showcase for her amazing talents and her truly delightful personality!”


You won’t want to miss this beautiful example of what can happen when two amazing artists create something wonderful together. Join us March 6 & 8 for music that deserves to be heard!

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