Music by Brian Current, libretto by Anton Piatigorsky
Depicting an everyday airplane in flight, equal turns comic and mythic.
Brian Current is a Toronto-based composer, a 2005 Guggenheim fellow, recipient of the 2003 Barlow Prize and winner of the grand prize in the CBC National Competition for Young Composers, Canada’s highest distinction for composers under 30.
Conductor: Steven Jarvi
Ad Executive: Emily Langford Johnson
Flight Attendant: Rebecca Ringle
Scholar: Matthew Chellis
Pilot: Michael Zegarski
Business Man: Kyungmook Yum
Excerpt 1(12:08)
Section III: the airplane disappears.
