Genevieve Leclair, conductor
Kerry DuWors, violin
Lindsay Knight, spoken word
The [Uncertain] Four Seasons is an algorithmic re-composition of Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’. Developed by composers, musicians, climate and computer scientists using geospatial climate predictions for 2050.
Dip into the music you know and love and experience it changed to reflect our very own Saskatoon climate thirty years from now.
Maestra Genevieve Leclair joins the SSO to lead not only the Uncertain Four Seasons, but also music by Beth Denisch and Jessie Montgomery.
Violinist Kerry DuWors returns home to Saskatoon to give this heart stopping performance. And rapper Lindsay Knight updates the Four Seasons poetry to reflect a call to action.
On November 1, 2021, in the hours leading up to COP26 in Glasgow, orchestras from around the world will perform their variation of The [Uncertain] Four Seasons in a global, 24-hour streaming event that aims to place further pressure on leaders to sign the Leaders Pledge for Nature, and commit to reversing biodiversity loss by 2050. We’re proud to have the SSO’s filmed performance be part of this international day of consideration for our future.
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The [Uncertain] Four Seasons builds on a concept developed by Jung von Matt and was first performed by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in November 2019. Titled The For Seasons, the algorithm-based work re-scored Vivaldi’s Four Seasons using climate data gathered from 1725 until 2019.
AKQA Jung von Matt
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The Program
The [Uncertain] Four Seasons
Geneviève Leclair, conductor
Kerry DuWors, violin
Lindsay Knight, spoken word
Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
Introduction by Dr. Ingrid Pickering
Fire Mountain Intermezzo
Beth Denisch
Strum
Jessie Montgomery
The [Uncertain] Four Seasons
The [Uncertain] Spring
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The [Uncertain] Summer
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The [Uncertain] Autumn
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The [Uncertain] Winter
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Antonio Vivaldi / Hugh Crosthwaite / AKQA
Geneviève Leclair
https://www.genevieveleclair.com/
[box]Geneviève Leclair is Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music where she has been teaching since 2016 and an active guest conductor with organizations across Canada, the United States and the U.K.
Equally at home in symphony, ballet and opera, she was a recurring guest conductor with The National Ballet of Canada and Northern Ballet (UK), Music Director of Parkway Concert Orchestra from 2013 to 2019, as well as Assistant Conductor and Guest Conductor of the Boston Ballet Orchestra from 2010 to 2017, and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Conductors Guild from 2017 to 2020.
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Kerry DuWors
[box]Hailed for her “soaring cantilena” (Gramophone Magazine), violinist Kerry DuWors has performed across Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Japan and New Zealand. In demand as a versatile chamber musician, Kerry champions collaboration across an array of ensembles from her duo work to leading chamber orchestras. Highlights include performances with duo526, James Ehnes, Yo-Yo Ma, Dame Evelyn Glennie and NYC-based The Knights. Praised for “always finding the music behind the notes” and her “fearless competence” (Winnipeg Free Press), she has been soloist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony, Saskatoon Symphony, and Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. In 2014, Kerry released her debut duo526 CD Ballade for PARMA Recordings with pianist Futaba Niekawa. Her sophomore album DUO FANTASY was released May 2019 featuring works by Villa-Lobos, Arnold Bax, and William Bolcom. “DuWors and Niekawa are a beautifully balanced duo, with exceptional intonation and a tangible empathy” (Gramophone Magazine). [/box]
Lindsay Knight
[box]Eekwol (Lindsay Knight) is an award-winning hip hop artist in Saskatoon, Treaty Six Territory, originally from Muskoday First Nation. Eekwol has been making music for many years. Her 5th full-length album titled “Good Kill” was released in 2017, and the single “Pitiful feat. 2oolman” made it to the #1 spot on the National Aboriginal Music Countdown and charted in Sirius Radio and numerous college and community stations and streaming site playlists. For 2019, she successfully received a Canada Council grant and completed a concept project with fellow lyricist, T-Rhyme titled “For Women By Women.”[/box]
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Program Notes
Experiencing the Music Together & Safely
We have an incredible track record here at the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. There has not been a single Covid-19 related incident at the SSO since the start of the pandemic….
[Uncertain] Four Seasons
by Damon Gameau, January 2021 When audiences first heard Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in the early 18th century, it was a sensation. It gave audiences something they’d never experienced before. It…
Composer Beth Denisch
Beth Denisch’s music has been performed at Moscow’s Concert Studio of Radio “Kultura,” in Russia, at Jordan Hall in Boston, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, across the U.S.,…
Composer Jessie Montgomery
Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator. She is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and her works are performed frequently around the…
Dr. Ingrid Pickering
Dr. Ingrid Pickering is introducing our concert, The [Uncertain] Four Seasons. She is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Molecular Environmental Science….
All things Eekwol
We knew we wanted to give the Four Seasons poetry the same [Uncertain] update that the music received, and we knew that we were not the ones to do so….
Our Part to Play
We all have a part to play when it comes to the future of climate change. As individuals, we can make changes around our homes and workplaces. Changes like, washing…
All about Kerry DuWors
Hailed for her “soaring cantilena” (Gramophone Magazine), violinist Kerry DuWors has performed across Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Japan and New Zealand. In demand as a versatile chamber musician, Kerry…
Introducing Geneviève Leclair
Geneviève Leclair is Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music where she has been teaching since 2016 and an active guest conductor with organizations across Canada, the United States and the U.K….
How the [Uncertain] Four Seasons was written
In 2019 the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra performed a work called The For Seasons. It was a concept developed by Jung von Matt that used an algorithm that took climate data gathered…