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One Night Stand: Alfredo Santa Ana

Presented by Music on Main

April 8, 2025 | The Fox Cabaret

A concert featuring Daniel Cabena (countertenor), Colin Browne (poet), Miranda Wong (piano), Mark Takeshi McGregor (flutes), Parmela Attariwala (violin), Cassandra Bequary (Violin), Andrew Brown (viola), Olivia Blander (cello).

This one-night-only event showcases Santa Ana’s music with performances by the virtuosic talents of countertenor Daniel Cabena, violinists Parmela Attariwala and Cassandra Bequary, violist Andrew Brown, cellist Olivia Blander, flutist Mark Takeshi McGregor, and pianist Miranda Wong. The program will feature two recent collaborations with poet Colin Browne, who will join the ensemble to read the spoken texts built into the music. Together, the performers will bring the emotional clarity of Santa Ana’s music to life in a performance that promises to be as memorable as it is moving.


Santa Ana’s diverse body of work, ranging from chamber music to avant-garde soundscapes, has been performed by top ensembles like Standing Wave, Orchestre de la Francophonie, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the Music on Main All-Star Band, and his music will be featured at the ISCM World New Music Days 2025 in Portugal. This special concert for Music on Main includes two world premieres.

PROGRAMME

I. Aves, The Four-Chambered Heart

(World premiere)​

  1. A tree grows taller in the mind

  2. Before there was nothing

  3. Into the air

  4. We ride the Great Wheel

  5. On early summer evenings

6. Comrade humans, what are you good for?

7. Ithaca's ablaze

8. On the island that comes and goes

9. When night falls

10. Confined to my chamber, consumed by woes

II. Little Ice Age

(World premiere)

  1. The Cold Gathers

  2. Ice Gods Don't Keep

  3. The Introvert

4. Prayers to a Vanishing Sun

5. Snow Dirge

6. The Last Hymn

III. Night Sonnets - Abridged

(World premiere of abridged version)

  1. Invocation

  2. I knew when I rushed in

  3. Citadel Hill

  4. A new them

  5. Who are you?

  6. O flat people

  7. Buffy

8. The kitchen table

9. A Sentence in the shape

10. Men of silage

11. Raven is geranium

12. A weapon called Canada

13. At four forty-six in the morning

14. I knew when I rushed in

IV. Zaloasymphnesis

(World premiere of ensemble version)

Version for voice, flute, piano, and string quartet

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