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ECSTATIC VOICES envisions a new context for the eight-voice choir. Featuring bold, sensual works for voices — Cassandra Miller’s The City, Full of People, Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize winning Partita for 8 Voices, Luciano Berio’s Cries of London, and Thomas Tallis' Lamentations of Jeremiah — this performance subverts expectation for the choir; bending, twisting, and mutating historical forms into new shapes and gestures.
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Punctuating the performance is Claude Vivier's Cinq Chansons pour Percussion, featuring virtuso percussionist Aiyun Huang. In dialogue with the vocal works, these wordless songs evoke an otherworldly ecstasy.​​
The astral washes of sound from an electric guitar join the plaintive sounds of a lone voice in I Saw A New Heaven, the final performances of the 2024 West End Micro Music Festival. Accompany an ensemble of Toronto's most creative artists as they reach for a new sonic landscape -- a conceptual space at the meeting point of the sublime, the supernatural, and the avant-garde.