What happens when the natural order of things is upended?
Join The Vilna Shul on Sunday, April 23 for an exclusive conversation with composer Osvaldo Golijov and lead performers Yoni Rechter and Nora Fischer, moderated by Leah Hager Cohen, in advance of their Boston Symphony Hall concert on Sunday, April 30. Falling Out of Time is a new work from award-winning composer Osvaldo Golijov. Rooted in David Grossman’s novel of the same name, this infinitely nuanced story in voices narrates a profound journey of grief and solace, a journey “out of time” as parents grieve the death of a child, a quest to comprehend a loss with no name.
Reception to follow.
More information about Falling Out of Time and to purchase tickets for the concert.
Presented by The Vilna Shul, in association with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Celebrity Series and BroadBand Collaborative.
About Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Golijov’s works include the St Mark Passion; the opera Ainadamar; Azul, a cello concerto; The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, for clarinet and string quartet; the song cycles Ayre and Falling Out of Time, and the soundtracks for the Francis Ford Coppola’s films Tetro and Youth Without Youth. This year two new works have premiered: Um Dia Bom, for string quartet, for Brooklyn Rider; and Ever Yours, for string octet, for the St Lawrence String Quartet together with the Telegraph Quartet. He was born in Argentina, and lived in Jerusalem before coming to the US. He is the Loyola Professor of Music at the College of the Holy Cross.
About Falling Out Of Time
Falling Out of Time is a theatrical concert for voice and instruments, created by one of the world’s leading composers and performed by thirteen musicians from all over the world. It began ten years ago as a prose-poem written by the Booker and Israel Prizes-winning author David Grossman of Jerusalem, following the death of his son in combat. In 2019 it became a song cycle by composer Osvaldo Golijov of Boston, winner of Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation fellowships.
In 2016, while reading the novel Falling Out of Time on a park bench in Tel Aviv, Osvaldo Golijov realized that for him, the spaces between its lines were music. That white space became his first composition in over a decade: a song cycle for ten instrumentalists and three voices in English and Hebrew. The libretto is adapted by Mr. Golijov from Mr. Grossman’s novel, as translated by Jessica Cohen.
About Leah Hager Cohen
Leah was born in Manhattan and raised at the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens and later in Nyack, New York. She attended Hampshire College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The author of six novels and five works of nonfiction, she is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing at the College of the Holy Cross.
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