NYFOS Next: This Now Naked Life at The Theater at 150 W 17th Street

In songs about our machines, our home, and our finitude, this concert contrasts humanity’s reach with its grasp. Daniel Pesca’s “Terra Incognita” imagines four stages in the process of lunar exploration; works by Thomas Kotcheff and Joel Balzun look more closely at natural processes of wonder closer to home. A premiere of selections from leiken’s “I Have Been the Blue Salmon,” from their forthcoming evening length work “Ars moriendi” proposes a quietly soulful relationship with limitation.

Program: Daniel Pesca – Terra Incognita Thomas Kotcheff – songs Joel Balzun – songs leiken – Selections from Ars moriendi [World Premiere]

Shannon Keegan, mezzo-soprano leiken, vocalist Nathaniel LaNasa, piano