BRITTEN: Les Illuminations
Melissa Wimbish, Soprano

Leonard conducts Britten’s Les Illuminations, a song cycle on poetry by Arthur Rimbaud, on a program that also features a new arrangement of Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerrilla for string septet by Jessie Montgomery. Curated in partnership with featured artists, the concert creates a portrait of Eastman’s New York City: through an immersive reflection by Eastman scholar Isaac Jean-François, with a new film by Ashanti Soldier and Kham Owens, and through works of Eastman’s colleague and contemporary Tania León. Watch the livestream recording.