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Programme Note

Digital perusal score available from ScoresOnDemand

>Related Works:
   concerto (world to come) — cello and orchestra
   world to come — cello and audio playback

Premiere:
May 8, 2010
Maya Beiser, cello
MADE Festival
Norrlands Operans Symfoniorkester
Staffan Larson conductor
Umea, Sweden

Composer's Note:
A cellist and her voice become separated from each other, and they struggle to reunite in a post-apocalyptic spiritual environment. world to come is a kind of prayer—introspective and highly personal. It is a meditation on hope and hopelessness, asking fundamental questions about the death and life of the soul.

world to come was written for Maya Beiser and commissioned by Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures, On the Boards, and Connecticut College, with support from Meet The Composer.

—David Lang