Ear Taxi and Bella Voce present "Lost Objects"

Name: Ear Taxi and Bella Voce present "Lost Objects"
Start: 2025-10-03T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Logan Center for the Arts

Schedule

Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL

In October, the season begins with Lost Objects to open the Ear Taxi Festival, presented by New Music Chicago, at Logan Center for the Arts. The 2001 oratorio is a Bang on a Can project, composed by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, with libretto by Deborah Artman. It features an amplified ensemble comprising three vocal soloists, chamber chorus, DJ, Baroque orchestra, electric guitar, electric bass, percussion, and synthesizer. We are excited to showcase soprano, Hannah DePriest, and countertenors, Ryan Belongie and Luke Lemmeier as our soloists for this extraordinary work.
Lost Objects is a genre-bending work that fuses the sonic textures of Baroque music with a modern sensibility, layering choral writing, a period-instrument orchestra, electronics, and poetic text into a seamless meditation on memory, ritual, and the artifacts of modern life. With harpsichord, string ensemble, and subtle electronic enhancements, the piece feels simultaneously ancient and futuristic—sacred and secular, intimate and expansive.
This haunting and evocative work reflects on the things we’ve lost—objects, relationships, identities—and the ways we grieve, remember, and carry them forward. Through its bold juxtapositions and expressive clarity, the work offers a poignant reflection on how sound can help us make sense of a fragmented world.
Lost Objects sets the tone for this year’s festival theme, The Composer’s Voice, by illustrating how composers today are not only redefining musical language but also responding directly to the emotional and cultural landscape of our time. As Bella Voce gives voice—literally and figuratively—to this moving piece, we welcome both new and returning audiences to explore what “new music” means when past and present collide.