Ensemble 21 was established in hopes of making new music more accessible to a wider audience. Its creative programming and skilled performances have helped to do just that.
- Ira Rosenblum, The New York Book of Music

2008-2009 Concert Season

20 November 2008
Miller Theatre, New York, NY

Jason Eckardt

UNDERSONG

A way [tracing] 
violincello solo

16
amplified flute and string trio

Aperture 
chamber sextet

The Distance (This) (premiere)
soprano and ten instrumentalists

Christopher Finckel, violoncello
David Fedele, flute
Tony Arnold, soprano
James Baker, conductor

Undersong (2002-2008) is an evening-length cycle of chamber compositions that are performed consecutively, without pause. The title refers to the powerful and unyielding voice of the oppressed as well as the lyrical strands of interconnection that lie beneath the work's fragmented surface.