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In this exciting series of contemporary music, Kwame Ryan conducts World Premieres by Melinda Wagner and Mary Kouyoumdjian. These works were commissioned as part of Project 19, the largest women-only commissioning initiative in history.

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Sound On: Eötvös, Kendall, van der Aa, and Kouyoumdjian

Lincoln Center

An adaptation of Atom Egoyan’s 2008 film of the same name, Adoration follows Simon, an orphaned high school student. As part of a dramatic writing exercise, Simon’s teacher encourages him to appropriate details from a historical terrorist attack as an event perpetrated by his parents. When his story goes viral, Simon uses the hysteria within his community and on the internet to highlight the challenges of intolerance and racism in our society. The fictional and actual circumstances of the loss of Simon’s family are revealed in fragments, only fitting together with the final revelation that the prejudices of Simon’s maternal grandfather led to his parents’ deaths.

Mary Kouyoumdjian

Composer

Events

May 10, 2024

Sound On: Eötvös, Kendall, van der Aa, and Kouyoumdjian · New York Philharmonic

19 - 23 Feb, 2025

Adoration · LA Opera

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