Prometheus – Master of Fire and Cosmos

Saturday, June 20, 2009 @ 14:00
Vancouver's Christ Church Cathedral

On Saturday, June 20, 2009, the Yarilo Music Ensemble with guests presented the concert Prometheus – Master of Fire and Cosmos.

This concert was about fire as inspiration, with compositions by Alexina Louie, Trilogy: “AfterImage”, “The Ringing Earth”, and “Homage”. The concert was dedicated to this distinguished Canadian composer on the occasion of her 60th birthday, including John Burke’s Firewind for two pianos; Jocelyn Morlock’s I Conversed with You in a Dream (“A Delicate Fire”) for flute and piano is a recent work dating from 2007, with featured guest Kathryn Cernauskas on flute; Bulgarian Mikhail Goleminov’s Revelation for piano and electronics; and the North American premiere of Alexander Scriabin/Alexander Sabaneev’s Prometheus – Poem of Fire in a version for two pianos.