The world premiere of a new composition, set to Pablo Neruda's iconic poem “I’m Explaining a Few Things,” takes place at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music on Thursday October 13 at 7:30 PM. Prima Voce Emerging Artists features the exceptional young mezzo soprano Tivoli Treloar, accompanied and mentored by Lucy Tucker Yates. With this poem, decrying the Spanish Civil War, Neruda became a pacifist poet and a committed activist. In 2017, British playwright Harold Pinter remarked, “Nowhere in contemporary poetry have I read such a powerful, visceral description of a bombing of civilians.” Although he was no ‘saint’, the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate was deemed the “greatest poet of the 20th century, in any language,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Tivoli's concert program includes additional works by Poulenc, Korngold, Prokofiev, Gershwin, and Mark Carlson.