Composer Jordan Nobles debuts participatory work in remembrance of late Jocelyn Morlock, at Life Cycles, August 10

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival opener also includes George Crumb’s mystical masterpiece Music for a Summer Evening

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival presents Life Cycle on August 10 at the Annex

WORK BY THE LIVING and the departed interweave in the opening concert for the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival on August 10.

Juno Award-winning Vancouver composer Jordan Nobles is set to premiere a new “participatory” work, called Apophinia, in tribute to his close friend, Jocelyn Morlock, the Vancouver composer who died in March. Expect a work “that invites listeners to unite in a communal ritual of remembrance”, according to program notes—an experience that promises to be heightened by Nobles’s signature unearthly sound.

The program, fittingly, also includes music by Morlock herself (the mesmerizing half light, somonolent rains), as well as otherworldly work by Austrailia’s Liza Lim. Those set the stage for a performance of the mystical masterpiece Music for a Summer Evening, by George Crumb, the avant-garde American composer who died last year.

Watch for similar themes to cycle through the rest of the festival, artistic directed by soprano Dory Hayley and pianist Alejandro Ochoa, until August 18.

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