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Orchestra of St. Luke’s Five-Borough Tour with Habibi’s Âhūye Kūhī – Brooklyn

For its annual Five-Borough Tour, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs chamber music by a group of living composers who write with wonderment about the earth and its origins; concern for its survival; and hope and purpose for its future.

This program is connected to a movement initiated by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, featuring composers from this community who “message a future that is just and green, again and again, to hasten cultural acceptance of the hard realities facing us all.”

Christine Delphine Hedden

Luisne for violin and cello

Michael-Thomas Foumai

Bang! for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, viola, and cello

Akshaya Tucker

In Whose Mouth, the Stars for string trio

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Canto de la Hoja” from Suite Mestiza for violin

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Zapatos de Chincha” from Hilos for clarinet and cello

Nicolas Lell Benavides

Recyclate for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, violin, viola, and cello

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Orchestra of St. Luke’s Five-Borough Tour with Habibi’s Âhūye Kūhī – Staten Island

For its annual Five-Borough Tour, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs chamber music by a group of living composers who write with wonderment about the earth and its origins; concern for its survival; and hope and purpose for its future.

This program is connected to a movement initiated by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, featuring composers from this community who “message a future that is just and green, again and again, to hasten cultural acceptance of the hard realities facing us all.”

Christine Delphine Hedden

Luisne for violin and cello

Michael-Thomas Foumai

Bang! for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, viola, and cello

Akshaya Tucker

In Whose Mouth, the Stars for string trio

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Canto de la Hoja” from Suite Mestiza for violin

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Zapatos de Chincha” from Hilos for clarinet and cello

Nicolas Lell Benavides

Recyclate for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, violin, viola, and cello

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Orchestra of St. Luke’s Five-Borough Tour with Habibi’s Âhūye Kūhī – Manhattan

For its annual Five-Borough Tour, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs chamber music by a group of living composers who write with wonderment about the earth and its origins; concern for its survival; and hope and purpose for its future.

This program is connected to a movement initiated by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, featuring composers from this community who “message a future that is just and green, again and again, to hasten cultural acceptance of the hard realities facing us all.”

Christine Delphine Hedden

Luisne for violin and cello

Michael-Thomas Foumai

Bang! for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, viola, and cello

Akshaya Tucker

In Whose Mouth, the Stars for string trio

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Canto de la Hoja” from Suite Mestiza for violin

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Zapatos de Chincha” from Hilos for clarinet and cello

Nicolas Lell Benavides

Recyclate for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, violin, viola, and cello

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Orchestra of St. Luke’s Five-Borough Tour with Habibi’s Âhūye Kūhī – Bronx

For its annual Five-Borough Tour, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs chamber music by a group of living composers who write with wonderment about the earth and its origins; concern for its survival; and hope and purpose for its future.

This program is connected to a movement initiated by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, featuring composers from this community who “message a future that is just and green, again and again, to hasten cultural acceptance of the hard realities facing us all.”

Christine Delphine Hedden

Luisne for violin and cello

Michael-Thomas Foumai

Bang! for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, viola, and cello

Akshaya Tucker

In Whose Mouth, the Stars for string trio

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Canto de la Hoja” from Suite Mestiza for violin

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Zapatos de Chincha” from Hilos for clarinet and cello

Nicolas Lell Benavides

Recyclate for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, violin, viola, and cello

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Orchestra of St. Luke’s Five-Borough Tour with Habibi’s Âhūye Kūhī – Queens

For its annual Five-Borough Tour, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs chamber music by a group of living composers who write with wonderment about the earth and its origins; concern for its survival; and hope and purpose for its future.

This program is connected to a movement initiated by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, featuring composers from this community who “message a future that is just and green, again and again, to hasten cultural acceptance of the hard realities facing us all.”

Christine Delphine Hedden

Luisne for violin and cello

Michael-Thomas Foumai

Bang! for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, viola, and cello

Akshaya Tucker

In Whose Mouth, the Stars for string trio

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Canto de la Hoja” from Suite Mestiza for violin

Gabriela Lena Frank

“Zapatos de Chincha” from Hilos for clarinet and cello

Nicolas Lell Benavides

Recyclate for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, violin, viola, and cello

Release of the Premiere Performance of Âhūye Kūhī

Reading about the ancient wisdom of the Persian culture, looking for the many forgotten ways in which our ancestors recognized, acknowledged and valued the vital importance of nature, harnessed its powers, protected, and monitored it, I was amazed to learn that one of the oldest known verses of Persian poetry addresses displacement, at least at a literal level. It asks how a mountain gazelle (Âhūye Kūhī) can be expected to survive in a plain, away from its habitat and with no companions. Displacement is one of the most pressing byproducts of climate change; this gave me the impetus to write this piece, Âhūye Kūhī, for these two wonderful performers and beautiful human beings: Lucia Lin (violin) and Leo Eguchi (cello). The opportunity to make music with such wonderful people is the reason I do what I do. I am so grateful to Lucia Lin and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music for co-commissioning this piece.

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