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Metropolitan Youth Symphony performs SPEM IN ALIUM by Seare Farhat

Performed by Vivaldi Strings, Concert Orchestra and MYSfits Strings Ensemble for the MYS Spring Concert, March 13, 2021. Program Notes: SPEM IN ALIUM was written for the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in Portland, OR during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the countless things sacrificed this year was music making and performance, especially at a large scale like in the orchestra. This piece was written not only to find beauty in the process of remote music making, but to embrace its quirks and challenges. The text, Spem in Alium harkens the Thomas Tallis motet of the same name written in 1570 for eight choirs, each of five voices, all in densely heterophonic and imitative counterpoint. The text, Spem in Alium (or Trust in Any Other) aptly fits the setting, where each voice, though independently and sometimes incongruently vocalizing, finds itself in a wash of texture and harmony. Similarly, my setting here for string orchestra in three groups [quintets at minimum] is a wash of sound that sometimes focuses on one group, and at other times floods the ears with massive sonorities. During this pandemic, we have been asked to trust in our fellow citizens and listen to each other’s needs in an unprecedented way. Not only is this piece an exercise for the musicians to listen locally in a globally chaotic contrapuntal environment, but also for the listener to draw their attention to the many little sounds of individuals as well as the bustling world of sound created from their heterophony. I hope that together we can find peace in the chaos and know that, even though it seems as if we are as distant as possible now in our own separate pods, that we are still members of a community of humans built around trust and with the welfare of all in mind.