Vespers for a New Dark Age

A blasphemous prayer in the glow of Winter Light, Third Angle presents Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age, plus Rose City Brass Quintet and world premiere commission by Portland composer and recently-named Guggenheim Fellow Oswald Huỳnh. In Mazzolli’s electrified and distorted take on the traditional Vespers prayer service she replaces sacred text with fragments of poetry by Matthew Zapruder which explore the way we confront technology, ghosts, death, doubt and God in our "new dark age."

PROGRAM
Missy Mazzoli / Vespers for a New Dark Age
Iman Habibi / Radiant Light
Eve Beglarian / Ascension
Michael-Thomas Foumai / Psalm
Gabriela Smith / Strobe
Oswald Huỳnh / New work (Title TBD)

3A ARTISTS
Sarah Tiedemann, flute
Ricky Smith, clarinet
Ling Ling Huang, violin
Chris Kim, double bass
Maria Garcia, synth
Yoko Greeney, synth
Chris Whyte, percussion
Arwen Myers, soprano
Madeline Ross, soprano
Sarah Beaty, alto

GUEST ARTISTS
Lars Campbell, conductor
Rose City Brass Quintet