Rising Tide: The Crossroads Project - Sept. 24
Prime Performance - Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 2pm
This multi-disciplinary live performance fuses original music with art, imagery and science to address global sustainability and provide a path toward meaningful response. With an original score by composer Laura Kaminsky, live musical performance by the Fry Street Quartet, lecture by physicist/climate educator Robert Davies and imagery by painter Rebecca Allen and environmental photographer Garth Lenz, the program confronts a planet under siege and a future in peril, inspiring audiences to change course.
- Free admission
- No tickets required
Rising Tide web site Rising Tide trailer Program
Presented in association with UAlbany's Office of Sustainability. Support provided by the University at Albany Foundation, Department of Music and Theatre, University Auxiliary Services, Office of Intercultural Student Engagement and the Alumni Association, through the Grandma Moses Fund. (Photos: Main image and first three side images by Andrew McAllister; Fry Street Quartet photo by Mary Kay Gaydos Gabriel)
The UAlbany Performing Arts Center is pleased to kick off its 2023-24 season of guest performances on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 2pm with Rising Tide: The Crossroads Project, a multi-disciplinary live performance fusing original music with art, imagery and science to address global sustainability. The 75-minute program is free and will take place at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown University at Albany campus located at 1400 Washington Avenue. The performance will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the performers and UAlbany experts.
Grounded in science, elevated by art and igniting response, Rising Tide confronts a planet under siege and a future in peril with the hope of inspiring audiences to change course. The program features an original score by composer Laura Kaminsky, live musical performance by the Fry Street Quartet, lecture by physicist/climate educator Robert Davies and imagery by painter Rebecca Allen and environmental photographer Garth Lenz. (see bios at end)
The New York Times called Rising Tide “...a performance piece that draws on music, painting, photography and scientific research in an attempt to entertain, enlighten and, ultimately, encourage people to live sustainably."
"Call it eco-art – multimedia works that focus on the Earth’s gifts and support the sustainability of the planet,” described The Washington Post. “...Rising Tide is a carefully structured idiom that makes the most of textures...”
From water to life, ecosystems to agriculture, civilization to economy, energy to consumption, Rising Tide is a distillation of the very best state of humankind’s knowledge, arising from one of humanity’s great endeavors: the enterprise of science. Water, soil, climate, life, food, energy and economy are all explored along with the chemistry of the oceans and the physics of complex systems.
Central to Rising Tide is Laura Kaminsky's score in four movements: H2O, Bios, Forage and Societas. Says Kaminsky, “My goal was to create a work with a persistent, and at times, subliminal pulse that carries through the four movements, making the quartet itself a symbol for the measure of life." The performance also contains movements from Haydn and Janacek.
The images of Rising Tide, both explicit and abstract, exalt the natural world and expose humanity's global assault upon it. From the boreal forests of Canada to the industrial sacrifice zones of China and from the ocean depths to the top of the atmosphere, audiences experience compelling, wondrous and terrifying images from the hands and minds of internationally renowned photographers and artists.