The Happenstancers: Always Darkest … Dawn Always

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Performed by “Toronto’s best young chamber musicians” (Bachtrack), this unique program charts a course across a single night, framing the emotional apotheosis within Arnold Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, and its depiction of the tension between and reconciliation of two lovers.

Juxtaposing three settings of Josquin de Prez’s Renaissance song Mille Regretz (1000 Regrets) with contemporary chamber works, we begin precisely at sunset in Toronto and reimagining each work as a time and corresponding emotional state over the course of the night, concluding with dawn and the lovers’ renewal.