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World Premiere of Chaya Czernowin's NO! by Daníel Bjarnason, Sofia Jernberg, Eliza Bagg, and the LA Phil New Music Group

Apr. 27, 2025

Soprano Sofia Jernberg, vocalist Eliza Bagg and the LA Phil New Music Group will perform the world premiere of Chaya Czernowin's NO! A Lament for the Innocent under the baton of Daníel Bjarnason as part of the LA Philharmonic's Green Umbrella series at Walt Disney Concert Hall on April 29. A second version of the work will be premiered on June 21 at the Funkhaus Wallrafplatz in Cologne by the WDR Sinfonieorchester and sopranos Sofia Jernberg and Keren Motseri, under the baton of Maxime Pascal.

Czernowin explains the inspiration behind the work:

"This piece is both a protest and a lament. I conceived it during the period of parent-child separations during the first Trump regime and wrote the work during the terrible and horrendous events in the Middle East which came to a head in 2023/2024 – with so many deaths and crimes against humanity affecting so many innocent people. I am an Israeli-born composer and am protesting intensely and in pain against the killing of so many innocent people by our army and the fact that there are such a huge number of dead children, children without parents and children without limbs in Gaza. I thought that this piece would be a loud scream – it ended up more like a lament."

NO! is an LA Phil co-commission with Radio France, WDR Sinfonieorchester, and Narodowej Orkiestry Symfonicznej Polskiego Radia, with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund.

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

To learn more about Chaya Czernowin, visit schott-music.com.

Chaya Czernowin
NO! (2023-2024)
A Lament for the Innocent
Version I: For one amplified high soprano and twenty-four musicians with tape
Version II: For two amplified high sopranos and two antiphonal orchestras of twenty-four musicians
17'
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