Feb 8 • 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Seminar on Leadership, Research, and Innovation

“Music Outside of Music” February 8, 2018
Chaya Czernowin, Internationally Acclaimed Composer
Chaya Czernowin is one of the world’s most acclaimed composers of contemporary music. Aspiring to make music “vital, visceral, wild and undefined as experience itself,” Czernowin has written chamber, orchestral, and stage works, and her most recent opera, Infinite Now, premiered in 2017. Hailed as “harrowing and darkly majestic” by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross, Infinite Now interweaves the stories of Luk Perceval’s play Front (based on All Quiet on the Western Front) with Can Xue’s “Homecoming,” linking these seemingly unrelated texts via what Ross calls “the terror, and the wonder, of discovering that the world you thought you knew has forever changed.” Born and raised in Haifa, Israel, Czernowin received her Ph.D. from the University of California San Diego and is currently the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard.

DINNER AND DISCUSSION RSVP, February 8, 7 PM