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Intersection: Contemporary Classical Music

Ariadne Greif sings with the Alterity Chamber Orchestra. Photo courtesy of Andreas Volmer
Ariadne Greif sings with the Alterity Chamber Orchestra. Photo courtesy of Andreas Volmer

Alterity Chamber Orchestra teamed up with soprano Ariadne Greif and composer Christopher Cerrone this week. They performed his work The Pieces That Fall To Earth,  a song cycle based on the poems of Kay Ryan, US poet laureate from 2008- 2010. 

Cerrone, Grief and clarinetist Natalie Grata, a founding member of the Alterity Chamber Orchestra talked to Intersection about contemporary classical music and finding new audiences for their music.