Leading to Fonema’s closing concert of the 2020-2021 season, our close collaborator and friend composer Bethany Younge shares her thoughts on the inspiring forces behind her work, and her new piece for Fonema. Words from Nina Dante on Younge’s music: “The music of Bethany Younge is raw. It deals with the body, the unique vocal expression and physicality of Younge herself, questions of identity when as much conditioning as possible is stripped away, and the bizarre theater that is born of all this. It is music that becomes desperately personal to the performer, as Younge composes with the essence of specific humans in mind. The brilliance of it all is its uroboric quality: in the end, Younge’s creations always circle back to be a representation of themselves.” Join us on the 29th for the premiere with the ESS Quarantine Concerts!