The Louisville Orchestra and conductor Teddy Abrams present two modern masterpieces that confront the frenetic noise of 21st-century life. Christopher Cerrone's The Year of Silence, based on Kevin Brockmeier's short story, casts baritone Dashon Burton as a singing narrator recounting a city visited by mysterious moments of absolute silence. Andrew Norman's piano concerto Split, with soloist Jeffrey Kahane, pulls its puppet-like pianist in every direction like an orchestral feed of scrolling content, its chaos yielding to passages of baroque beauty. Cerrone's vividly cinematic orchestration and Norman's restless brilliance each find transcendence amid upheaval, offering a meditative answer to the distractions of contemporary culture.