Carolyn Enger: Resonating Earth – Fall River, MA
April 22, 2025
Resonating Earth
From the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to coal burning plants in the Ruhr Valley of Germany, from the glorious heights of mountain ranges in Alaska to mountains of potassium waste in Eastern Germany, Resonating Earth was created in response to the climate crisis. A stylistically fluid creation with a wide range of ambient music, including Bach, Nico Muhly, Pia Møller Johansen, Missy Mazzoli, Philip Glass, Marcos Balter, Iman Habibi and Caroline Shaw; alongside stunning imagery of the environment by Peabody Award-winning producer Elliott Forrest(WQXR), visual artist Myles Aronowitz, and internationally-exhibited environmental activist and photographer J Henry Fair, Resonating Earth creates a soundscape focusing on the beauty in our environment and inspires environmental activism in an artistic, musically immersive way.
Program:
- The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 Johann Sebastian Bach
- Prelude in C Major, BWV 846
- in the brittle quietude Iman Habibi
- Hovering Robert Sirota
- l.v. Marcos Balter
- Les feuilles blancs Pia Møller Johansen
- Gustave Le Gray Caroline Shaw
- Notturno Lee Kesselman
- In a Landscape John Cage
- LILT (from Fourteen Études) Nico Muhly
- Ellis Island Meredith Monk
- Gas Station-Canon Song Scott Wollschleger
- Orizzonte Missy Mazzoli
- Etudes for Piano, Book I Phillip Glass
- No. 2
- Rêverie Claude Debussy