Creation

Further embarking on the Faith in Our Time journey launched last season that ponders faith, spirituality, and religion, the BSO surveys music that seeks to answer one of humanity’s oldest and most enduring questions: How did we come to be? The focal point of this existential inquiry is Creation, a BSO-commissioned companion piece to Haydn’s exalted choral masterwork, The Creation. Written by longtime BSO collaborator and Tanglewood Music Center Fellow Osvaldo Golijov with lyricist David Henry Hwang, this momentous new work draws on jazz, Arabic, and Brazilian music as it explores Darwinian theory, randomness in the cosmos, and theories of the universe. The Creation and Creation will be performed in back-to-back concert weekends. Enhanced by additional chamber concerts, talks, and multidisciplinary offerings, this two-week festival furthers our understanding of creation as more than just a moment in time, and instead as a continuing story that unfolds across cultures through sound, drama, and collective listening.