Christopher James Lees, conductor. "An American Perspective"

As part of a semester-long exploration on perspective, UM\&##39;s Contemporary Directions Ensemble opens their season with a program composed by Americans looking out from our borders into the world. The musical result of this exploration is remarkable, and synthesized in ways unique to the voices of these composers, including UM\&##39;s own Evan Chambers. This program also includes the beginning of a two-year performance cycle of the Berio Sequenzas, a collection monumental virtuosic solo works, in anticipation of the 10-year anniversary of his death in 2013.

PROGRAM: Theofanidis - Raga; Berio - Sequenza No. 1 for Flute solo; Bresnick - My Twentieth Century; Reed Thomas - Rumi Settings; Chambers - Crazed for the Flame