WATER

By David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon
TOUR PRODUCTION: Sinfonietta concert with choir

Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen
Ars Nova Copenhagen
Paul Hillier
Jacob F. Schokking
Holland House

WATER is an exploration through music, staging and projection of how dependent we are upon water in our world, and how uneasy our dependence really is. Much of our dependence is of course physical; at the same time, the hope for water, or the lack of it, can be a spiritual construct as well. Our piece explores the water we have and the water we need, the water we control and the water that controls us.

We have always lived with water in a kind of fragile equilibrium. We have too much. We have none. A rich man calls for ice in his water, next to a poor man who thirsts. It is a precarious balance, between blessing and curse, between life and death, between plenty and scarcity.
– Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe

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