Boston University Center for New Music Presents HYENA Concert at the ICA/Boston
![Georg Friedrich Haas [left] and Mollena Lee Williams-Haas [right] after a HYENA concert.](/cfa/files/2022/09/Composer-Georg-Friedrich-Haas-and-writer-and-storyteller-Mollena-Lee-Williams.jpeg)
Boston University Center for New Music Presents HYENA Concert at the ICA/Boston
The BU Center for New Music partners with the ICA/Boston and Boston-based group Sound Icon to present Austrian composer Georg Friendrich Haas’ HYENA live in concert on Friday, February 24, 2023.
Georg Friedrich Haas [left] and Mollena Lee Williams-Haas [right] after a HYENA concert. Photo by Markus Sepperer
As part of Boston University Center for New Music’s 2023 season, the Center is proud to present HYENA at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) / Boston.
HYENA is a concerto for orchestra and narrator, featuring a remarkable score by acclaimed Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas to accompany the autobiographical story told by his American wife, the writer and storyteller Mollena Lee Williams-Haas. She was an alcoholic for years and wrote a searing story about her long journey to sobriety. In the performance, Williams-Haas reads her story, as the music reinforces her narrative’s hallucinatory qualities. HYENA will be performed by Boston’s own Sound Icon Ensemble led by Jeffrey Means. Also featured is Haas’ de terrae fine for solo violin, performed by Sound Icon’s Gabriela Diaz.
HYENA is a bold and courageous journey of into the mind of an alcohol-addicted woman who must fight her worst demon—the titular “hyena.” It is a lavish and gorgeous treatment of light, color, words, and performance. This performance of HYENA is a coproduction of the BU Center for New Music and the ICA/Boston.
HYENA Concert at ICA/Boston
EVENT DATE, TIME & LOCATION:
Friday, February 24, 2023 • 8pm
ICA/Boston
25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA 02210
TICKETS
$15 for students with valid ID and ICA/Boston members • $25 for non-members
Complimentary media tickets available upon request.
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