Click to make donation Sarah Grace Graves presents a release party for her album Three Names, the result of two years with Scelsi's Three Latin Prayers, Alvin Curran's Three Ligurian Chants, and so much more meditative and transportive music from across many centuries. The album is now out on Elektramusic.
The project had its birth in Rome in July 2023, when Sarah Grace was asked by Fondazione Isabella Scelsi to conduct research and present a performance in honor of the legendary singer Michiko Hirayama. The resulting performance, Vespro, now called Three Names, is a curated performance around Scelsi’s Three Latin Prayers that connects Michiko Hirayama’s long-standing interest in Gregorian chant with her own intersecting histories with spirituality and experimental music.
For the Bay Area sendoff of the program, Sarah Grace has invited local musicians to join her on several of the selections, including an arrangement of Alvin Curran's Tramonto for double choir.
PROGRAM
Alvin Curran: Three Ligurian Chants, I. Alba
Giacinto Scelsi: Three Latin Prayers, I. Ave Maria
Giacinto Scelsi: Three Latin Prayers, II. Pater Noster
Alvin Curran: Three Ligurian Chants, II. Tramonto
Alvin Curran: Three Ligurian Chants, III. Mezzogiorno
Old Roman Chant: Vidi Aquam
Giacinto Scelsi: Three Latin Prayers, III. Alleluja
George Papajohn: Response
Sarah Grace Graves: Embrace
Sarah Grace Graves, voice
with
Eda Er, George Papajohn,
Matt Ingalls,
Tom Bickley,
Nancy Beckman, Jessie Nucho, Danniel Ribeiro,
Anne Hege,
Danishta Rivero, Noah Mlotek, Tasya Abbott, Jens Ibsen, Elysha Massatt, Matias Arizmendi, and Max Abner.
A 100-copy limited edition pre-release pressing of CDs will be available for purchase.