World premiere of a new song cycle by Daniel Bjarnason

We went to the land of the ice and snow to ask for music. Returning with the promise of a song with a Wildbird. Needing words for our song, we asked one who broke waves, and he gave them with two hands.

Daníel Bjarnason music
Mariam Wallentin voice
Royce Vavrek words

Performers:

Crash Ensemble

Commissioned by Crash Ensemble with the LA Phil and support from the Arts Council.

“His colorful, restless score drew me in, with its passages of overlapping cyclic riffs, slowly heaving instrumental expanses and episodes of darting fragments, like some mystical dance.”
– New York Times