New Music ensemble Contemporaneous brings an early look at Act 1 of their upcoming work, History of Life, by composer and Co-Artistic Director, Dylan Mattingly, and librettist Thomas Bartscherer. Part céilí, part rock concert, part astral meditation on the history of the world, History of Life is a wild ecstatic musical vision that resurrects the ancient form of the epic—a massive musical poem weaving together a vast collection of the stories of our world to form a new mythology of ourselves and our place within its history. Mountain Stage, OUTDOORS