Name: scars plummet to the corners
Start: 2025-04-25T19:30:00
Location: The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

Emi Ferguson

Jacob Rhodebeck

AMOC / American Modern Opera Company

You could say Vivaldi had a kind of synesthesia when writing The Four Seasons. What does being cold feel and sound like? MacArthur Award-winning playwright and librettist Sarah Ruhl joins Anthony Roth Costanzo to co-conceive a tapestry of Vivaldi’s music, telling an original story about a world in which the seasons are completely out of order. Tony Award-winning set designer Mimi Lien collaborates with M.I.T. materials technologist Jack Forman to fuse art and science, bringing atmospheric events to the stage. Celebrated choreographer Pam Tanowitz creates a maelstrom of dance, director Zack Winokur helms the production, and Corrado Rovaris conducts the rapturous piece, which stars Costanzo.

“The Seasons” at Opera Philadelphia

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

A New York premiere and co-production between AMOC* and Sandbox Percussion, Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato feels like the long-lost cousin of beloved American Minimalist works like Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians or Terry Riley’s In C. Encountering it for the first time is like meeting an unknown relative—you’re struck by uncanny resemblances: the tilt of a nose, the rhythm of a laugh, echoes that stretch across time and space.

“Canto Ostinato” – Cal Performances

University of California, Berkeley

AMOC* flutist Emi Ferguson and pianist Jacob Rhodebeck offer the New York premiere of scars plummet to the corners, an AMOC* commission from composer Michael Hersch, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. The piece will premiere at the Sylvia Adalman Recital Series (Baltimore, MD) on April 7.