Song Recital

Devotions presents a program conceived jointly by Ema Nikolovska and Kunal Lahiry, in which song itself becomes a mediator, moving from the macro to the microscopic: from evocations of the natural world to the embodiment of the human voice in all its fragility. Taking historical and contemporary music and poetry as its starting point, the program presents a collage of styles—from lieder to vocalises, and three contemporary works—which, in their juxtapositions, pose questions to the audience about nature, transience, death, and transfiguration. Overall, what do these songs say about each other and about our relationship to nature, seen as a force that is both threatening and inspiring, or as a source of consolation and escape? The audience has the opportunity to discover its own perspective, as the primary intention is to create a stream-of-consciousness experience in which listeners can forge their own connections and perhaps also renew their relationship with…