Falling Out of Time (2019)
The Silkroad Ensemble. Recording available October 9, 2020.
You –
Where are you?
What are you?
And how are you there?
And who are you there?
Notes by Leah Hager Cohen
Falling Out of Time is a journey to nowhere – or more accurately, a journey to no where. For the dead are no longer in time or place, and those who love them and would follow them must seek a route beyond linear boundaries. This is a kind of madness, and a kind of truth.
The seed of this musical project was sown at a 2002 encounter between Osvaldo Golijov and Yitzhak Frankenthal, founder of The Parents Circle, an organization of Israelis and Palestinians who have lost family members to the ongoing conflict. Mr. Frankenthal shared the story of a bereaved father who could not reconcile himself to leaving his dead son and reentering the world of time. For many days he remained at his son’s side, at night sleeping upon the grave. Narrating with his actions a story of madness and truth.
Digital album and CD
The Silkroad Ensemble and In a Circle Records present the premiere recording of Osvaldo Golijov’s Falling Out of Time
Interview with Classical Post
Osvaldo Golijov sat down—virtually—with Classical Post’s Anna Heflin to talk about Falling Out of Time.
