Three new works will premiere at the Composers of Space City concert by Sound Hive, a local contemporary music ensemble. The program is built around the newly commissioned work Lost Signals from Moonbase 14 by Josh Vinci. With a background in film scoring, Vinci has created a piece about a boy’s journey around the galaxy to find an alien girl. “Josh often likes to begin the composition process with a poetic image or story,” the group’s clarinetist, Amy Glover, tells us. “In Lost Signals, this image is the various phenomena — distant planets, blinding lights and shimmering nebulae — experienced by a lonely interstellar wanderer. The music, therefore, is expansive and colorful, with the sort of evocative orchestrations you might hear in a movie.”
Glover contributes Dream Forest (“the musical expression of a vivid dream that I experienced several years ago”), while George Heathco adds Hammerballet (“rhythmically charged, it was written under the incessant pounding of nearby carpenters”).
7:30 p.m. 14 Pews, 800 Aurora. For information, call 927-989-0045 or visit soundhivemusic.com. $15 to $20.
Sat., June 14, 7:30 p.m., 2014
This article appears in Jun 12-18, 2014.