Month of Moderns opens Sunday, June 5 with a commissioned premiere of Gabriel Jackson for Seneca Sounds (our central theme for this year’s Month of Moderns). Drawing a parallel to the temporal aspects of Seneca's writing, we introduce two works based on Ecclesiastes (both bearing the same title): Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's Igen (2006), and American Pulitzer Prize laureate David Lang's Again (2006) and give the area premiere of Ingram Marshall's astounding reaction to war using ancient Roman texts in his Savage Altars. Mark Winges (resident composer at Volti in San Francisco - the only other professional ensemble in the USA dedicated to new works) further expands our ideas about choral music with The Assembling Landscape (2008), a wordless, lush, pointillistic and moving work that dispenses of text entirely.