![]() ![]() “These aren’t pandemic reflections, so to speak. ![]() “I wrote the bulk of these songs in the first part of 2021, when we could sense that the pandemic was going to go on for a while longer, but also that we could sense it would end at some point.” Siegel told ALL ARTS before the song cycle’s premiere. Described as a “hushed meditation on heartbreak and hope,” “Watching Birds at the End of Time” comprises 14 songs, opening with “Sight” and closing with “Mystery.” Spread out in between are “Light,” “Life,” “Ghosts,” “Distance,” “Truth,” “Other,” “Self,” “History,” “Song,” “Love,” “Hell” and “Loss.” Sae Hashimoto and Anthony Roth Costanzo performing “Watching Birds at the End of the World.” Photo: Steven Pisano. Presented by Death of Classical as part of “ The Angel’s Share” series, the work had its world premiere Thursday, which featured two sold-out shows over the course of the night (in addition to a packed house for Wednesday’s dress rehearsal). The occasion was the dress rehearsal for “ Watching Birds at the End of the World,” a new song cycle from composer Aaron Siegel, performed by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and vibraphonist Sae Hashimoto. The cool of the Green-Wood Catacombs cut the heavy New York heat Wednesday night as an audience filed into the narrow space, that evening lined in candlelight.
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