Program Note

Virgo was composed by Mikhail Krutik for the “Sound Ways” festival Tierkreis Project, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Karlheinz Stockhausen’s work Tierkreis (composed in 1974-5). Krutik’s Virgo is a musical personification of the Zodiac sign, one of the main qualities of which is “the desire to order chaos.” Because this piece was conceived as a musical commentary to Stockhausen’s Virgo, it starts and ends with the same chord.