Kernis’ Earth sounds a warning about what we are doing to our only conceivable home. Kernis is one of America’s most honored composers, and he wrote Earth specifically for tenor Phan, who performs it here. The work begins with a plaintive question sung a capella — “Why are the seasons no longer the seasons of before?” — that returns several times as a threnody (or lament) during the longer opening section.“What’s really special here,” Kernis says, “is that the poet, Kai Hoffman-Krull, is also a farmer himself and a researcher on sustainable farming practices.”
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Aaron Jay Kernis EARTH Premieres at Santa Fe Pro Musica, Featuring Nicholas Phan
