In Thursday’s (1/16) Bangor Daily News (Maine), Emily Burnham previews the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming Sunday concert featuring a new piece, Sireines, by Christopher Tin, “a longtime collaborator with BSO music director Lucas Richman…. Sireines … will be performed by the BSO and the four-woman vocal group, Anonymous 4…. Tin, 37, who won two Grammy Awards in 2011 for his album ‘Calling All Dawns,’ on which Richman conducted … [says], ‘I thought, ‘What if we reimagined Anonymous 4 as the sirens from Homer’s Odyssey?’ … Also premiering at Sunday’s concert will be a new piece from Richman, ‘A Clear Story I Let Relive,’ a result of the annual auction of an original Richman composition, on which BSO patrons can bid at the symphony soiree, held in March.… Both Richman and Tin are prolific composers, mostly for film, TV and, in Tin’s case, video games. They met in 2005 when Tin was a participant in Richman’s annual workshop for composers writing for film. … [Tin’s] song ‘Baba Yetu,’ the theme for the popular video game ‘Civilization IV’ … later made its way onto the album ‘Calling All Dawns,’ for which Tin needed a conductor…. For that, he called Richman.”
Posted January 17, 2014
