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US Premiere of Chaya Czernowin's Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings by the New York Philharmonic, led by Brad Lubman

Oct. 19, 2025

The New York Philharmonic, under the baton of Brad Lubman, performs the US premiere of Chaya Czernowin's Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings as part of their "Sound On" series at the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall on October 29. Musicians of the Philharmonic will be joined by students from the Juilliard Orchestra and vocalists from Neue Vocalsolisten. Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings received its world premiere at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in October 2024 by the SWR Symphonieorchester led by Vimbayi Kaziboni. The work was commissioned by New York Philharmonic and Südwestrundfunk.

Czernowin notes: "In this piece, the voices do not tell stories. They transmit sensorial events of naked emotions: voice as breath, as noise, as flight, a kind of butoh of the voice. An opera of sorts, the piece reaches deep internal regions of the self. The voice is situated within an orchestral primordial forest, jungle, a vast wilderness of unstoppable and uncontrolled growth. There is life everywhere …The piece invites the listener to vestiges of undiscovered connectivity between external and internal nature, which is at the same time deeply familiar, vulnerable and touching, and equally strange, foreign but above all, synaesthetic."

Listen to Chaya Czernowin's Moths of Hunger and Awe (2023/24):

Moths of Hunger and Awe/Chaya Czernowin/Ilya Gringolts, violin/
Münchener Kammerorchester/Bas Wiegers, conductor

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Chaya Czernowin
Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings (2023)
for six unamplified voices
3.3.3(1,2,3bcl).3-4.3.3.1-3perc-hp-pno-sampler-str
34'
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