New York Times Profile

Hannah recently met with Steve Smith for a feature in The New York Times ahead of the premiere performances of He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing on 9 and 10 August with the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center and conductor Jonathon Heyward. Read the feature in The New York Times here.

Co-comissioned by the Lincoln Center and Musikkollegium Winterthur with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, the piece is inspired by both Schumann's Symphony No. 2 and Mozart's Jupiter, which in her composer's note, Hannah says, "lead me to the title; a passage from the Book of Job reflecting on the greatness and power of God, with specific imagery speaking to the miraculous creation of the vast cosmos." She also says, "It reminded me of Jupiter, god of sky and thunder (in some translations 'the north' is 'the northern skies,' and later on the verse says, 'who then can understand the thunder of this power?') However, it also seemed to embody the sensations of profound despair, reminiscent of Schumann's, having read his letters: feelings of being within a void; suspended without tangible means of support." Both works have been programmed alongside Hannah's.