The Groundswell of Feeling
Cameron Kelsall for Bachtrack reviewed the Philadelphia Orchestra’s first performance of Vivian Fung’s Prayer, digitally broadcast on October 22.
Composer Vivian Fung described Prayer as her “most overtly emotional work” in a brief, taped introduction prior to The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first performance of the piece… The groundswell of feeling Fung described was entirely evident, from the guttural low voices that open the work to the high string lines that seem to communicate glimmers of hope in the midst of darkness.
