If you wanted any further proof that music can preserve the things history so often reduces to dates, statistics and headlines, you find it in Rose Wollman and her powerful new work “Alabanza”. Written by Mexican composer Francisco Cortés-Álvarez, with Maria Brea on soprano and Dror Baitel on piano, it takes Martín Espada’s Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 and transforms it into something both deeply human and musically compelling, a piece about ordinary lives caught within extraordinary history.


