Creation by Osvaldo Golijov & David Henry Hwang
Eric Jacobsen
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Creation by Osvaldo Golijov & David Henry Hwang
The power of Argentine-born American composer Osvaldo Golijov’s musical voice lies in the great range of his musical loves, which encompass popular and traditional music from all over our planet and the great classics of the symphonic and operatic worlds. Working with a roster of stellar cross-genre performers, Golijov responds to Joseph Haydn’s great oratorio The Creation with a work that explores the gloriously indifferent cosmos alongside humanity’s bewildering capacity for cruelty and infinite tenderness as we, creatures ourselves, answer the call to be creators too.
Drawing upon a concept by the Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and with lyrics by Leah Hager Cohen, Golijov offers a work of questioning and celebration. His Creation illuminates a joy that is not lessened, but rather deepened, by the understanding that creation and destruction walk hand in hand.
Golijov’s Creation works on a scale that recalls his powerful, Bach-inspired La Pasión según San Marcos, given its American premiere at Symphony Hall in 2001. David Henry Hwang wrote the libretto for his acclaimed opera Ainadamar, a BSO commission for the Tanglewood Music Center premiered at Tanglewood in 2003.
The power of Argentine-born American composer Osvaldo Golijov’s musical voice lies in the great range of his musical loves, which encompass popular and traditional music from all over our planet and the great classics of the symphonic and operatic worlds. Working with a roster of stellar cross-genre performers, Golijov responds to Joseph Haydn’s great oratorio The Creation with a work that explores the gloriously indifferent cosmos alongside humanity’s bewildering capacity for cruelty and infinite tenderness as we, creatures ourselves, answer the call to be creators too.
Drawing upon a concept by the Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and with lyrics by Leah Hager Cohen, Golijov offers a work of questioning and celebration. His Creation illuminates a joy that is not lessened, but rather deepened, by the understanding that creation and destruction walk hand in hand.
Golijov’s Creation works on a scale that recalls his powerful, Bach-inspired La Pasión según San Marcos, given its American premiere at Symphony Hall in 2001. David Henry Hwang wrote the libretto for his acclaimed opera Ainadamar, a BSO commission for the Tanglewood Music Center premiered at Tanglewood in 2003.
The power of Argentine-born American composer Osvaldo Golijov’s musical voice lies in the great range of his musical loves, which encompass popular and traditional music from all over our planet and the great classics of the symphonic and operatic worlds. Working with a roster of stellar cross-genre performers, Golijov responds to Joseph Haydn’s great oratorio The Creation with a work that explores the gloriously indifferent cosmos alongside humanity’s bewildering capacity for cruelty and infinite tenderness as we, creatures ourselves, answer the call to be creators too.
Drawing upon a concept by the Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and with lyrics by Leah Hager Cohen, Golijov offers a work of questioning and celebration. His Creation illuminates a joy that is not lessened, but rather deepened, by the understanding that creation and destruction walk hand in hand.
Golijov’s Creation works on a scale that recalls his powerful, Bach-inspired La Pasión según San Marcos, given its American premiere at Symphony Hall in 2001. David Henry Hwang wrote the libretto for his acclaimed opera Ainadamar, a BSO commission for the Tanglewood Music Center premiered at Tanglewood in 2003.
