mark knight Kruk has written a piece for
us he's calling it contact concerto it's
actually a concerto for voice and
orchestra essentially it's it's
fascinating what he's doing with the
local writing it's of course a work that
will celebrate Sasha cooks incredibly
beautiful and distinctive voice but it
uses the voice not so much as the as the
as the vehicle to to sing words and
present poetry but but it's uh it's more
like the protagonist in a traditional
instrumental concerto it's not the first
time this has been done people have
written vocal ease in the past a
wordless word with songs but mark is
doing something you know in marks in him
in the middle way he's always coming up
with new paradigms for for the structure
and the premise for the works that he
writes and I think this is a
particularly interesting one sasha cooke
is someone that I worked with when I
conducted doctor atomic John Adams
amazing important opera at the
Metropolitan she had a very very
powerful presence not to mention voice
and throughout that production as in
chief really inhabited the stage it was
nice to reunite with her and work with
her in Britain spring symphony last year
there are a lot of great singers but
they're not that many whose voices you
hear and instantly can identify she has
a special quality to her timber that is
that is truly unique and kind of
ravishing I think she's she's really
she's really big time it's it's great to
work with her and I'm sure we'll be
doing a lot of things over the years
together