Millennium Canticles

ANAM alumna Kaylie Melville, Artistic Director of Speak Percussion and Co-Artistic Director of Rubiks Collective, returns to direct ANAM’s percussionists in Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles — a post-apocalyptic song cycle that reimagines ritual in a fractured world.

Written in 2022 for the Chicago ensemble Third Coast Percussion, the work blends ancient chant with mechanical rhythm and flashes of dark humour. Its five movements follow a community of imagined survivors rebuilding belief through sound — part prayer, part invention.

Under Kaylie’s direction, ANAM’s percussionists bring this strange, compelling world to life, revealing Mazzoli’s vision of renewal through rhythm, precision and play.

Jeanette LITTLE Shifting Worlds
Missy MAZZOLI Millennium Canticles 
Thomas MEADOWCROFT Home Organs 
Christopher CERRONE Ode to Joy

Kaylie Melville (alum, 2015) director/percussion
ANAM Percussion

Approximate duration: 1 hour with no interval