Mezzo-soprano Sharon Harms and the Talea Ensemble will give the New York premiere of Eric Chasalow’s “Muriel’s Songs” on April 23, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. The monodrama was inspired by the memoirs of Chasalow’s grandmother, Muriel Gellert Chasalow (1903–2000), drawn from a collection of writings she produced at a senior {…}
The Talea Ensemble will continue its celebration of Luciano Berio with “Sequenze III” on Feb. 17, 2026. The program features clarinetist Rane Moore and bassoonist Adrian Morejon, Talea’s Executive Director, with guest soprano Lucy Shelton. The program includes Anthony Braxton’s “Composition No. 304” for Clarinet and Bassoon, Luciano Berio’s “Sequenza IXa for Clarinet,” “Sequenza XII for Bassoon,” and “Sequenza III {…}
Is it mere coincidence that Nadia Boulanger’s “La ville morte” and Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt” fixate so obsessively on the past? In both works, the “dead city” is less a place than a psychological condition. Yet whereas Korngold’s necrophilia is filtered through Freudian “psychologie pathologique,” Boulanger’s figures inhabit a Symbolist world of ancestral trauma and fatality. “La ville morte” reads {…}
The Talea Ensemble is set to present “That Other Spring – Music of Haas & Hersch” on Oct. 29, 2023. The evening will include works by Georg Friedrich Haas and Michael Hersch and will be presented at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew in Manhattan. The concert will also feature soprano Ah Young Hong. In a statement, the {…}
Talea Ensemble has unveiled its 2023-24 season, the 15th in the company’s history. “We celebrate our 15th Anniversary Season by both looking back at works formative to the ensemble and looking forward to new collaborations with the next generation of composers,” said Executive Director Adrian Morejon in an official press statement issued by the company. “The significance of words and {…}