APERIO, Music of the Americas Presents
in collaboration with NEW AMERICAN VOICES
a special streaming performance of Shawn Crouch’s
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a thrilling new work by American composer Shawn Crouch, with poetry by Wallace Stevens. This stunning world premiere production from Aperio, Music of the America's 2020 concert season explores multiple perspectives on the poet’s blackbird motif through a collection of enigmatic haiku-like poems. The Miami Herald describes Crouch’s music as “staggering… imaginative, powerful, and deeply moving” and Gramophone Magazine praised him as a “gifted young composer.” He is the winner of the 2015 New American Voices Composition Prize which supported the completion of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.

PROGRAM
CROUCH - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird for solo voices, percussion, and piano

PERFORMERS
Tony Boutté, tenor & music director; Amy Petrongelli, soprano Emily Howes-Heilman, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Besch, bass-baritone  Brian Graiser, percussion; Saule Garcia, piano