AURA performs music that explores different viewpoints and perspectives. Canadian composer Edward Top’s “Pots ‘n Pans Falling” memorializes the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. In composing this work, Top took the perspective of one of the young seven-year-old survivors who innocently and disarmingly described the gunshots as sounding like “pots and pans falling to the floor”. “Media Control”, a work by composer and jazz-pianist Pascal LeBoeuf, critiques post-truth culture by referencing ideas from Noam Chomsky’s 2002 book with the same title. The musical material is developed through process-oriented procedures and seeks to represent the view that mass media in the United States serves as the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda

Program:

Pots ’n Pans Falling (2013) – Edward Top (b.1972)

Media Control (2017) – Pascal Le Boeuf (b.1986)       

The concert is part of the Chamber Music America, 2025 National Conference, Houston.