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09 December 2024 Vilnius (Lithuania)
Open to the World '24: Christopher Tin
Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Tin - LVSO Concert Hall
Program Info: Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius) Conductor, Christopher Tin "Bel Canto" (art director Milda Švelnienė) Choir "A Scalpella" (Sweden, artistic director Rasmus Krigström) Vocal ensemble, "Duodeco" (art director Povilas Vanžodis) Soloist, Jamal Moore (JAV) Soloist, Tomas Pavilionis
Choir Bel Canto presents: a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience - for the first time in the Baltic and Nordic countries, immerse yourself in the cult video game and cinematic music of Grammy winner Christopher Tin right here in Vilnius!
Continuing its unique Open To The World project, the Bel Canto Choir presents an exclusive content and concert experience. Two evenings in a row - 2024. December 8-9 - the choir will hold concerts with the main guest of the project - Christopher Tin (USA), one of the world's most famous composers of concert, opera and video game music, conductor and two-time "Grammy" laureate. At the same time, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian vocal ensemble "Duodeco", choir "A Scalpella" (Sweden), soloists Jamal Moore (USA), Tomas Pavilionis and others will also participate.
Christopher Tin's music has crossed national borders and is listened to by hundreds of millions around the world. Joining this global phenomenon, a team of more than 150 singers and musicians from Lithuania, the USA and Sweden will perform his most famous works in the LVSO concert hall in Vilnius.
Exclusive content and concert experience in Christmas Vilnius
The first part of the concert includes the premiere of the composer's latest large-scale piece "The Lost Birds" (for choir, vocal ensemble and orchestra) in the Nordic and Baltic region. This work, which has a strong social and environmental dimension, is a musical memorial to bird species that have been exterminated by mankind. It's a touching, sensitive, cinematic piece that pays homage to the flocks of birds that once filled our skies, whose songs have died down. It is also a warning about our fragile existence on the planet - the fate that befell the wings also predicts our extinction.
The second part of the concert is dedicated to Christopher Tin's work for the media. For the first time in the region, the most popular pieces from the albums that earned the composer worldwide fame and a Grammy will be played live. For example, the hit "Baba Yetu" from the album "Calling All Dawns" with hundreds of millions of streams, created for the video game "Civilization IV", became not only a modern choral standard, but also made music history - the first work written for a video game to win a Grammy " award.
Christopher Tin's multilingual song cycle Calling All Dawns won his second Grammy Award for Best Classical Album, and The Drop That Contained the Sea debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Charts. It had its world premiere at Carnegie Hall in New York.
The only such evening in the Baltic and Nordic countries
The concert will also feature works from another world-renowned composer's album "To Shiver the Sky". It is an oratorio about the history of flight and mankind's quest to conquer the skies. In it, eleven of the world's most famous astronomers, inventors, visionaries and pilots talk about our inexorable need to explore the universe, to ignore earthly ties and to claim our place among the stars.
The main highlight of the album and the final piece of the concert is another hit with hundreds of millions of listens, "Sogno di Volare". This composition for the video game Civilization VI is a musical illustration of Leonardo Da Vinci's text about flight. It is about discoveries: both geographical, when we discover new lands, and intellectual, when we seek knowledge of science and new technologies.
Christopher Tin's works are sung in various languages: English, Latin, Italian, German, French, Polish, Sanskrit and others. In this way, the composer sends a strong message of unity - regardless of race, culture, religion and other differences, we are all connected by a common human experience.
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