Concert in beautiful Paul Hall at the Juilliard School and a live stream which you can access at the time of the event HERE.

Co-Commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society which premiered the work in May of 2021, On the blue shore of silence is a multimedia commissioning project curated by Francesca dePasquale that draws inspiration from Pablo Neruda’s collection of twelve poems “On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea.” Composers Gity Razaz, Gloria Justen, and Sayo Kosugi each took four poems from the collection and created response works for solo violin, electronics, and piano, totaling twelve movements to create a large-scale suite. Additionally, artist Johanna Andruchovici created twelve original pieces of visual art to correspond with each poem and its respective music, which are projected during the performance. 

Water is one of the principal forces and elements in life, one which has long been a source of depth, inspiration, and beauty to artists for centuries. Though poetry has traditionally been set to song, the abstract nature and sound-world of violin, piano, and electronics will allow the composers to freely draw on Neruda’s evocative use of color, texture, and emotion in the text. As water becomes an increasingly precious resource, On the Blue Shore of Silence seeks to celebrate the depth of its power as a creative and literal life force by weaving together disciplines of poetry, visual art, and music.