A Hub New Music program of newly commissioned works at the Kennedy Center’s Studio K space was anchored by Carlos Simon’s “Requiem for the Enslaved”
Carlos Simon leads Hub New Music in performing “Requiem for the Enslaved” at Studio K at the Kennedy Center. In celebration of its tenth season, the estimable experimental ensemble Hub New Music made its Kennedy Center debut on Thursday night, performing a Fortas Chamber Music program of newly commissioned works in
The “intermittent pieces of an already fragmented place” referenced in the title emerge atop a bed of field recordings from a trip taken by Negrón to visit family and friends in Puerto Rico. Little darts of flute and clarinet puncture the pulse of a modulated oscillator, with cello and violin casting long sentimental shadows. These all converge into a brightly colored tessellation of figures that taper and fade into the background noise.
The concert’s entire second half was devoted to “Requiem for the Enslaved,” a stunning long-form work for piano, trumpet, speaker and chamber ensemble by Carlos Simon. Originally commissioned in 2020 by Georgetown , and supported by the university’s Committee for Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation, the cycle takes up the story of the 272 enslaved people sold by the university in 1838 to pay its debts.
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