The Forest @ Jack Creek Preserve

an experiential immersive hiking concert with Echoes Amplification Kits
presented by Warren Miller Performing Arts Center

Friday, July 30, 2021 – timed entrances between 7-8pm
Jack Creek Preserve, Ennis, MT

$30 per vehicle entry

Program:

Kevin Vondrak & Donald Nally – The Forest (2020)

The Forest is an immersive hiking experience in which listeners walk through the performance. Hikers/listeners can move through the piece as quickly or slowly as they wish, and will encounter singers along the way as they explore the environment. Speakers are positioned close to the designated path, reestablishing those currently-broken relationships between singers and audience members, and telling our story – the story of a planet in crisis, its people and its forests in peril, and yet, in that curiously human way, a story of hope and a way forward.  

The text and music of The Forest focus on the symbiotic relationship between individual trees and the forest – a metaphor for the relationship between each singer and a full ensemble. The libretto is formed of singers’ reflection on their isolation during COVID-Time, overlaid with texts from Scott Russell Sanders’ essay “Mind in the Forest.” The music is composed by Kevin Vondrak and Donald Nally.

Warren Miller Performing – www.warrenmillerpac.org