Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer Caroline Shaw on Writing Music for Winter Moods
'I'm trying to figure out the balance between winter and holiday and joy and sadness.'
White Light Festival
5 Virtuosos Bringing Their Work to Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival This Fall
Now in its tenth year, this annual fall event brings avant-garde creatives from around the globe to New York City to share their singular gifts. This year, here are five performances you won't want to miss.
Worshipping at the Church of Lincoln Center: White Light Fest Premieres ‘Curlew River’
In Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River, a mother driven mad by the disappearance of her son learns the truth of his death from the ferryman who takes her to her boy’s tomb. Populated with monks in cassocks and their mitred abbot, who invokes God’s grace both at the outset and 75 minutes later, when the piece ends in pious resignation, it is a frankly religious vocal drama.
