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ECSTATIC VOICES envisions a new context for the eight-voice choir. Featuring bold, sensual works for voices — Cassandra Miller’s The City, Full of People, Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize winning Partita for 8 Voices, Luciano Berio’s Cries of London, and Thomas Tallis' Lamentations of Jeremiah — this performance subverts expectation for the choir; bending, twisting, and mutating historical forms into new shapes and gestures.
Punctuating the performance is Claude Vivier's Cinq Chansons pour Percussion, featuring virtuso percussionist Aiyun Huang. In dialogue with the vocal works, these wordless songs evoke an otherworldly ecstasy.
The astral washes of sound from an electric guitar join the plaintive sounds of a lone voice in I Saw A New Heaven, the final performances of the 2024 West End Micro Music Festival. Accompany an ensemble of Toronto's most creative artists as they reach for a new sonic landscape -- a conceptual space at the meeting point of the sublime, the supernatural, and the avant-garde.