Hear "Echoes from Cold Mountain," a chamber music concert in the History Museum auditorium of works by Jennifer Higdon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who was commissioned to write the score for the operatic version of Charles Frazier’s novel, Cold Mountain, debuting at the Santa Fe Opera this summer. The works will be performed by the Chatter chamber music group of Albuquerque, along with members of the Santa Fe Opera’s orchestra, soprano Adelaide Boedecker, mezzo-soprano Megan Marino, poet Demetria Martinez, and the Del Sol String Quartet. Part of the museum’s exhibit, Fading Memories: Echoes of the Civil War. Tickets, $15 in advance (call 505-986-5900 or 800-280-4654), $20 at the door.
Pieces to be performed are Steeley Pause, Celestial Hymns, SMASH, and selections from Bentley Roses and Love Sweet.
Higdon is an impressive and recognizable name in contemporary classical music. she has composed for or performed at the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Luzern Sinfonieorchester, the Hague Philharmonic, the Melbourne Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, and the Dallas Symphony.
In 2010, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto. Other awards include those from the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts & Letters (two awards), the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Meet-the-Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and ASCAP.
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