The 2nd weekend if the 2023 West End Micro Music Festival features ALCHEMICAL PROCESSES.

ALCHEMICAL PROCESSES presents music in a state of transformation. With the metamorphic magic of alchemy as inspiration, this performance features new works and new arrangements that recontextualize the sounds and colours of the 16th and 18th centuries.

Thomas Ades’ Alchymia features musical transfiguration — imagining the transformation of the King’s eyes into pearls from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and disassembling the music of John Dowland. Paired with Alchymia is Cassandra Miller’s About Bach, a work that deconstructs and reimagines JS Bach’s iconic chaconne.

WORKS

Thomas Adés- Alchymia (Canadian Premiere)

JS Bach (**arranged by Cherwin) - Concerto in A, BWV 1055

Cassandra Miller - About Bach

John Dowland - Lachrimae Verae (arranged by Johnson, World Premiere)