Berkeley cellist and composer Theresa Wong’s new composition inspired by Hurricane Dora in Maui will be performed twice this weekend.
Cellist and composer Theresa Wong will perform her new work “Night Into Dawn” with the Peninsula Women’s Chorus on May 4-5.On a family vacation to Hawaii last August, Theresa Wong witnessed some of the worst that nature can dish out, and some of the best that humans can do in responding to adversity.
The challenging score explores new ground for both Wong and the PWC, requiring the singers to make decisions at various points in the piece. It’s a strategy inspired by “how communities work together in a time of crisis, when people are bonding together in shelters and makeshift tents, or sharing food,” Wong said.
The PWC’s solo set places Wong’s premiere in the midst of a program focusing on works by women, including an arrangement of the Baptist hymn “How Can I Keep from Singing” by Alice Parker, the prolific Massachusetts arranger and composer who died in December at the age of 98. “One thing she does in this piece is create this feeling of crackling with the reiteration of the word ‘stay,’” Hege said. “By holding staccato chords there’s a patterning of sound like snapping twigs. It captures heat in an environmental sonic way that’s amazing. I haven’t heard anything like it.”
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