In August, Sara participated in the Creative Music Intensive program at Arts Letters & Numbers in Averill Park, NY, where she composed a new score in collaboration with the Bergamot String Quartet. “From the Mountain” premiered at Sand Lake Center for the Performing Arts on August 13, 2024.
Program note:
The form of the Blue Ridge mountains has been distilled into two sonic shapes: the rise and fall of land elevation and the lyric call of the wood thrush, a reclusive bird found in the deep woods of Appalachia. The score incorporates elements of graphic notation and improvisation and calls for natural materials to be collected locally and then returned to the landscape after the performance.
Documentation to come.