The title work for our February concert Message Exchange is by American composer Rain Worthington. We are so happy that she is allowing us to perform the Canadian premiere of this work.
Rain Worthington’s compositions have been performed from Iceland to Brazil, Japan to India. Self-taught in composition, her catalog includes orchestral, chamber, duo, solo and miniature works. Her orchestral music has been premiered in the U.S. and internationally in Italy and Brazil. “There is a deep interiority to this music . . . a composer of considerable imagination, emotional expressiveness, and poetic sensibility.” – American Record Guide
Program note: The two movements – I. That’s What I Heard, II. Are You Sure? of “Message Exchange” were inspired as an electronic-age reimagining of the 1948 humorous painting “The Gossips” by Americana painter Norman Rockwell.
Check out the painting “The Gossips” from the Norman Rockwell Museum!