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8 Aug
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Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 7.30pm
The Complete Piano Works by Pierre Boulez
Salzburger Festspiele
various, Salzburg, Austria
Austria
ttel.: +43-662-8045-500
http://www.salzburgfestival.at/
info@salzburgfestival.at
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano
Tamara Stefanovich, Piano
Salzburg contemporary is sponsored by Roche
Youth! Arts! Science!
‘It is not enough to construct one’s revolution, one must also dream it’: thus, Pierre Boulez once formulated his artistic credo. It would never have been enough for him to appear only as a prophet of the avant-garde and a radical revolutionary, administering fundamental criticism to rigid, anti-modernist structures with his notorious demand to blow up all opera houses. Instead, as a composer he was always a sensuous poet of sound, striving quite traditionally for technical mastery and personal expression in equal measure, also and especially when experimenting with the latest techniques, such as guided chance and live electronics – a dedicated explorer and reformer. Reflecting his search for perfection and the ideal implementation of his thoughts, many of his pieces have undergone various stages of development, growing in scope, instrumentation and duration and thereby becoming others, as if they were living organisms undergoing maturation. If Salzburg contemporary takes Pierre Boulez’s 90th birthday as an occasion to focus on his eminent œuvre, naturally this includes some of the great key works of New Music of the past 70 years – interpreted by the friends, students and comrades-in-arms of this singular musician, who has also made history as a conductor. With the French tradition ranging from Debussy to Boulez’s influential teacher Olivier Messiaen, and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, the series also highlights some of the music of the past that influenced Boulez. These works are complemented by a new piece by Olga Neuwirth, whose music Pierre Boulez is very fond of: a portrait of the artist as an ageless man.
Walter Weidringer
Translated by Alexa Nieschlag
Pierre Boulez : Notations (12)
Pierre Boulez : Sonate pour piano n°1, 2 & 3
Pierre Boulez : Incises
Pierre Boulez : Une page d’éphéméride
Pierre Boulez : Structures pour deux pianos: Livre II
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8 Aug
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Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 1950-2040
The Artist, His Muse, The Singer and Her Lover
Kings Place
Kings Cross, London
United Kingdom
Tickets: 7.50
Maria Bovino, soprano
Oliver Curry, piano
Zoe Lister actress
Paul Barker composer/pianist
A Comedy Double-Bill of Synthetic Voice Melodrama
The starting point for Paul Barker's double-bill is how to do opera without a voice. Not just a singing voice, but without any voice at all. My Voice and Me is the autobiography of Oliver Curry, an English tenor who lost his voice as a result of rehearsing I Pagliacci in Naples many decades ago; it left him voiceless, unable to make any sound. He tells the story today with the aid of a synthetic voice (which sounds uncannily like Stephen Hawking) whilst simultaneously playing the piano. Oliver's wife, soprano Maria Bovino, makes an unexpected guest appearance. Of Zoe and the Woman I Sing explores in three acts the relationship between an artist and his muse. Actress Zoë Lister is that muse whom the artist turns into an avatar, the better to control her. The avatar speaks with a unique synthetic voice developed by Toshiba Europe along with Paul Barker, modelled on Zoë, designed to emulate any human emotion. Barker has composed many operas exploring different languages and his most recent, EL Gallo, is an opera for six actors and two string quartets without text. It has been performed across several continents with over 100 performances and has won several awards. His exploration of opera now returns to language but dispenses with singers and expects instrumentalists to act.
Paul Barker : Of Zoe and The Woman I Sing
Paul Barker : My Voice and Me
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9 Aug
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Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 1550-1640
The Artist, His Muse, The Singer and Her Lover
Kings Place
Kings Cross, London
United Kingdom
Tickets: 7.50
Music & Pianist: Oliver Curry
Soprano: Maria Bovino
Music & Pianist: Oliver Curry
Soprano: Maria Bovino
A Comedy Double-Bill of Synthetic Voice Melodrama
The starting point for Paul Barker's double-bill is how to do opera without a voice. Not just a singing voice, but without any voice at all. My Voice and Me is the autobiography of Oliver Curry, an English tenor who lost his voice as a result of rehearsing I Pagliacci in Naples many decades ago; it left him voiceless, unable to make any sound. He tells the story today with the aid of a synthetic voice (which sounds uncannily like Stephen Hawking) whilst simultaneously playing the piano. Oliver's wife, soprano Maria Bovino, makes an unexpected guest appearance. Of Zoe and the Woman I Sing explores in three acts the relationship between an artist and his muse. Actress Zoë Lister is that muse whom the artist turns into an avatar, the better to control her. The avatar speaks with a unique synthetic voice developed by Toshiba Europe along with Paul Barker, modelled on Zoë, designed to emulate any human emotion. Barker has composed many operas exploring different languages and his most recent, EL Gallo, is an opera for six actors and two string quartets without text. It has been performed across several continents with over 100 performances and has won several awards. His exploration of opera now returns to language but dispenses with singers and expects instrumentalists to act.
Paul Barker : Of Zoe and The Woman I Sing
Paul Barker : My Voice and Me
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14 Aug
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Friday, August 14, 2015 at 7.30pm
MacMillan & Sibelius
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.eif.co.uk
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Edward Gardner Conductor
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Christopher Bell Chorus Master
Colin Currie Percussion
Anna Larsson Mezzo soprano
Johan Reuter Baritone
For composer James MacMillan, Scottish percussionist Colin Currie’s captivating playing combines accuracy, sensitivity and a real sense of emotion – alongside a deep musicality and natural showmanship.
Currie is the dedicatee of MacMillan’s new Second Percussion Concerto, which has a special focus on the scintillating sounds of metal percussion and a provocative combination of lyricism and visceral energy. It’s a tough physical workout for Currie as soloist – and a thrilling ride for listeners.
After the interval, Edward Gardner conducts one of Sibelius’s grandest works. Kullervo tells a moving, dramatic tale of guilt and redemption from Finnish folklore, with acclaimed Swedish contralto Anna Larsson, respected Danish baritone Johan Reuter and the combined choral might of the Edinburgh Festival and RSNO Choruses.
James MacMillan : Percussion Concerto No 2
Jean Sibelius : Kullervo
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15 Aug
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Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 8pm
PIERRE BOULEZ • Répons
Salzburger Festspiele
various, Salzburg, Austria
Austria
ttel.: +43-662-8045-500
http://www.salzburgfestival.at/
info@salzburgfestival.at
Matthias Pintscher, Conductor
Hidéki Nagano, Piano
Sébastien Vichard, Piano
Frédérique Cambreling, Harp
Luigi Gaggero, Cymbal
Samuel Favre, Vibraphone
Gilles Durot, Xylophone
IRCAM: Andrew Gerzso and Gilbert Nouno, Electronic Realization
Ensemble intercontemporain
‘It is not enough to construct one’s revolution, one must also dream it’: thus, Pierre Boulez once formulated his artistic credo. It would never have been enough for him to appear only as a prophet of the avant-garde and a radical revolutionary, administering fundamental criticism to rigid, anti-modernist structures with his notorious demand to blow up all opera houses. Instead, as a composer he was always a sensuous poet of sound, striving quite traditionally for technical mastery and personal expression in equal measure, also and especially when experimenting with the latest techniques, such as guided chance and live electronics – a dedicated explorer and reformer. Reflecting his search for perfection and the ideal implementation of his thoughts, many of his pieces have undergone various stages of development, growing in scope, instrumentation and duration and thereby becoming others, as if they were living organisms undergoing maturation. If Salzburg contemporary takes Pierre Boulez’s 90th birthday as an occasion to focus on his eminent œuvre, naturally this includes some of the great key works of New Music of the past 70 years – interpreted by the friends, students and comrades-in-arms of this singular musician, who has also made history as a conductor. With the French tradition ranging from Debussy to Boulez’s influential teacher Olivier Messiaen, and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, the series also highlights some of the music of the past that influenced Boulez. These works are complemented by a new piece by Olga Neuwirth, whose music Pierre Boulez is very fond of: a portrait of the artist as an ageless man.
Walter Weidringer
Translated by Alexa Nieschlag
Pierre Boulez : Répons
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19 Aug
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 8pm
Golden Dragon
Bregenz Festival
Austria
http://www.bregenzerfestspiele.com
Music theatre (2014)
Libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig
adapted by Peter Eötvös
First performance in Austria
Co-production with Ensemble Modern
and Oper Frankfurt
An Asian fast-food restaurant where five people from different generations meet. A small man suffering from toothache. The fable of the ant and the cricket. A tooth that is removed with a wrench and lands in a stewardess's bowl of soup. A family that makes a phone call from the gap in the teeth.
Roland Schimmelpfennig's theatrical fable The Golden Dragon, which premiered at Vienna's Burgtheater in 2009, has been adapted by the Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös as a many-layered piece of music theatre, in which five performers play 18 roles. After its world premiere at Oper Frankfurt, the most recent stage work by one of the most successful opera composers of our time is now being performed at the Bregenz Festival. For the production, the world renowned Ensemble Modern is returning to Lake Constance after a ten-year absence.
Peter Eotvos : Golden Dragon
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20 Aug
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Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 7:00pm August 20-30 (no performance August 24), Tuesdays-Thursdays at 7:00 p.m., Fridays at 8:00 p.
Van Gogh Re-Imagined in Theatrical Concert Series 8/20-30
Stone House
250 Division Street
United States
413-528-0524
http://www.aier.org
Tickets: $85
Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Hailed recently by The New York Times as “ingenious,” New York City’s Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to the Berkshires for the third consecutive summer with the regional premiere of the theatrical concert Van Gogh’s Ear. In partnership with the American Institute for Economic Research and the Clark Art Institute, the 10-day, 12-performance series of Van Gogh’s Ear complements Clark’s art exhibition Van Gogh and Nature and features a special pre-performance discussion August 25th led by the Clark’s curator at large, Richard Kendall.
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21 Aug
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Friday, August 21, 2015 at 7.30pm
Cortège pour violon, accompagné de “La Fanfare Harmonie du village”
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch
Basler Madrigalisten | Raphael Immoos conductor | Desirée Meiser stage direction | Silvester von Hösslin narrator | Noëlle-Anne Darbellay violin and voice | Matthias Schranz violoncello | Lanet Flores Otero clarinet | Daniele Pintaudi piano and mime | Blanka Kertész piano
Jürg Wyttenbach has always defied borders – whether between the arts, genres, or stylistic levels. This is clear from the first sampling of his Lucerne retrospective as composer-in-residence, when we will encounter instrumentalists transformed into singers and actors, clowning into performance art, vocal experimentation into enigmatic chansons, and eccentric miniatures into a half-hour-long madrigal play that here receives its world premiere. Above all this hovers the spirit of Mani Matter, the famous Swiss singer-songwriter. A colorful evening on the cusp between anarchy and artistic alchemy is what you should expect. And you can be sure it will turn to gold thanks not only to Wyttenbach’s musical and theatrical imagination but also to his rebellious and mischievous sense of humor.
Jürg Wyttenbach : Sutil und Laar
Jürg Wyttenbach : Trois chansons violées
Jürg Wyttenbach : Una chica en Nirvana
Jürg Wyttenbach : ist klang der sinn?
Jürg Wyttenbach : Es git en Bueb mit Name Fritz
Jürg Wyttenbach : Matter
Jürg Wyttenbach : Der Unfall
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22 Aug
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Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 11am
Youth Philharmonic of Central Switzerland | Jürg Wyttenbach | Carolin Widmann | Talvi Hunt | Maria Korovatskaya
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch
Youth Philharmonic of Central Switzerland | Jürg Wyttenbach conductor | Carolin Widmann violin | Talvi Hunt piano | Maria Korovatskaya soprano
Music as a way of viewing images: in Jürg Wyttenbach’s Violin Concerto from 2013 the instrumentalists seem to have jumped straight out of the screen. And indeed Gustave Courbet’s famous monumental painting A Burial in Ornans will be projected as an enlarged image on the stage. Wyttenbach has translated Courbet’s “rigidified dance of death” into a “masterful piece of music theater,” wrote the Basler Zeitung following the world premiere. His Cortège (“Procession, Funeral March”) is led by the solo violin – played by the wonderful Carolin Widmann – as the ”harlequin of death,” while the other musicians represent the villagers: the bass tuba for example is the heavyset mayor, while the trumpets are two old veterans of the Revolution. A procession also comes to mind in Charles Ives’s Third Symphony, The Camp Meeting, which evokes the eponymous Presbyterian revival meeting with its church hymns, much as the composer experienced them in his childhood.
Jürg Wyttenbach : Divisions for piano and nine solo strings
Modest Mussorgsky : The Nursery
Charles Ives : Symphony No. 3 The Camp Meeting
Jürg Wyttenbach : Cortège pour violon, accompagné de “La Fanfare Harmonie du village”
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22 Aug
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Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 9.30pm
Magnetic Rose Oneohtrix Point Never
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.eif.co.uk
Experimental American composer Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) performs a new live soundtrack to accompany a screening of the Katsuhiro Otomo film Magnetic Rose. Oneohtrix, recently cited by NME as one of the ‘100 most influential artists’, creates futuristic soundscapes that continuously conjure mystical images of the unknown. This Scottish premiere adds a whole new dimension to the accompanying footage. The second part of the evening features a performance of Bullet Hell Abstraction IV, a new composition inspired by video games.
Daniel Lopatin : Magnetic Rose
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22 Aug
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Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 4pm
Jürg Wyttenbach: Gargantua chez les Helvètes du Haut-Valais
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch
Alpini Vernähmlassig | Franziskus Abgottspon narrator
“His drive for freedom is like a stream that floods everything and in which everything has a place, from the craziest and most blasphemous to the most intelligent.” Composer-in-residence Jürg Wyttenbach has always been fond of the French Renaissance novelist François Rabelais. He is especially fascinated by the open, indeed wildly episodic layout of Rabelais’ masterwork Gargantua and Pantagruel, which indulges an irrepressible love for storytelling and “in that very moment recreates the form of the novel and language.” Corresponding to this is Gargantua chez les Helvètes du Haut-Valais, which was initially conceived as part of a richly associative collage opera on Rabelais that was never completed. It juxtaposes folkloric and experimental approaches, folk music instruments and advanced playing techniques, life-affirming earthiness and ambiguous Dadaist language games. Originally written for the Oberwalliser Spillit, Wyttenbach has newly arranged his “questionable, though thoroughly bucolic scenes” – as the subtitle has it – for the Lucerne-based ensemble Alpini Vernähmlassig.
Jürg Wyttenbach : Gargantua chez les Helvètes du Haut-Valais oder: “Was sind das für Sitten!?”
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24 Aug
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Monday, August 24, 2015 at 8pm
Max Richter Recomposed | Memoryhouse
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.eif.co.uk
Pioneering British musician Max Richter inhabits an indefinable realm between contemporary classical and indie pop, creating achingly gorgeous soundscapes that combine the icy purity of minimalist composers Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt with the richness of contemporary electronica.
Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons is Richter’s subtly radical postmodern remix of one of classical music’s best-loved works, taking the great Baroque composer’s four concertos as the starting point for a startling musical transformation bringing in loops, samples, drifting ambient soundscapes and monumental walls of sound.
This special Festival performance brings together the work’s original performers – respected international solo violinist Daniel Hope, conductor and contemporary music specialist André de Ridder, with Richter himself on keyboards and electronics – who are joined by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Memoryhouse is an intoxicating journey through the beauty and tragedy of 20th-century Europe, combining music, poetry and voices to explore stories real and imagined, with Baroque harpsichord, soaring strings, poignant piano, electronics and orchestra.
Max Richter’s Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons is the music for Wayne McGregor’s Kairos performed by Ballett Zürich at the Edinburgh Playhouse on 27–29 Aug
Max Richter : Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
Max Richter : Memoryhouse
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26 Aug
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 6:30pm - 10:pm
once below (2015_
Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation)
Bernauer Straße 4, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Germany
http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veranstalt_detail.php?id=876
Erik Drescher (Glissando flute)
Michelle O' Rourke (Voice)
Johnny Chang (Viola)
Rishin Singh (Trombone)
once below (2015) is a double quadraphonic sound installation with intermittent soloists, which focuses on time, place and our ever-changing contexts of hearing. The entire work is based on recordings made in a bunker underneath Gesundbrunnen Station, Berlin. Most of the sounds recorded are not audible to our naked ears. They are hidden and yet feel very real and present. These sounds themselves adhere to their own rhythm and time, in which we play little part. This work brings many aspects of Karen’s work together in a very special and unique venue; Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation). Here, the two sound installations are naturally separated through the chapel dome offering audiences the opportunity to experience a creative manipulation of hidden and audible from this special world below. 4 soloists will ‘drop-by’ to perform a short composed piece in the outer space at numerous times throughout each day, which offers yet another context, another time, another space that changes how we hear everything.
Karen Power : once below
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27 Aug
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 2pm - 7pm
once below
Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation)
Bernauer Straße 4, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Germany
http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veranstalt_detail.php?id=876
Erik Drescher
Johnny Chang
Michelle O' Rourke
Rishin Singh
once below (2015) is a double quadraphonic sound installation with intermittent soloists, which focuses on time, place and our ever-changing contexts of hearing. The entire work is based on recordings made in a bunker underneath Gesundbrunnen Station, Berlin. Most of the sounds recorded are not audible to our naked ears. They are hidden and yet feel very real and present. These sounds themselves adhere to their own rhythm and time, in which we play little part. This work brings many aspects of Karen’s work together in a very special and unique venue; Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation). Here, the two sound installations are naturally separated through the chapel dome offering audiences the opportunity to experience a creative manipulation of hidden and audible from this special world below. 4 soloists will ‘drop-by’ to perform a short composed piece in the outer space at numerous times throughout each day, which offers yet another context, another time, another space that changes how we hear everything.
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27 Aug
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Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 8pm
Chamber Opera Double Bill
Presteigne Festival
United Kingdom
01544 267800
http://www.presteignefestival.com
Ruth Kirsty Hopkins
Desmond Howard Quilla Croft
David Greg Tassell
Richard Williams director ∙ George Vass conductor
Nova Music Ensemble
Nova Music Opera brings together a pair of contemporary chamber operas by Charlotte Bray and Thomas Hyde about misunderstood characters from modern British history. In the sixtieth anniversary year of her controversial execution, the end of Ruth Ellis’ life is examined in Charlotte Bray’s work Entanglement.
Thomas Hyde’s That Man Stephen Ward, premiered to wonderful reviews in 2008, charts the demise of one of the more tragic characters involved in the Profumo scandal of the early 1960s.
Charlotte Bray : Entanglement
Thomas Hyde : That Man Stephen Ward
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28 Aug
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Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9.15pm
Wave Movements
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.eif.co.uk
Composers Richard Reed Parry and Bryce Dessner, also members of rock bands Arcade Fire and The National respectively, take as inspiration the different wave cycles of the world’s oceans in a work for string orchestra and film. The music, composed directly to the actual rhythms of waves, is performed live by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to a film made by the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto who created an iconic series of seascape photos in the 1980s.
The two acclaimed musicians will perform alongside members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Heart & Breath, with Bryce Dessner on guitar and Richard Reed Parry on bass. Heart & Breath is based around the idea of using the widely varying internal rhythms of the performers’ bodies as performance parameters, relying on the breathing rates of the players to determine the pace of the music.
Dessner's Murder Ballades will also be performed by members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is a fascinating score based on American ballads about murder. It was originally created as a score for a piece by L.A. Dance Project, who appeared at the Festival in 2013.
Bryce Dessner : Murder Ballades
Richard Reed Parry : Heart & Breath
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28 Aug
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Friday, August 28, 2015 at 2pm - 7pm
MikroMusik Festival
Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation)
Bernauer Straße 4, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Germany
http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veranstalt_detail.php?id=876
Erik Drescher
Johnny Chang
Michelle O' Rourke
Rishin Singh
once below (2015) is a double quadraphonic sound installation with intermittent soloists, which focuses on time, place and our ever-changing contexts of hearing. The entire work is based on recordings made in a bunker underneath Gesundbrunnen Station, Berlin. Most of the sounds recorded are not audible to our naked ears. They are hidden and yet feel very real and present. These sounds themselves adhere to their own rhythm and time, in which we play little part. This work brings many aspects of Karen’s work together in a very special and unique venue; Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation). Here, the two sound installations are naturally separated through the chapel dome offering audiences the opportunity to experience a creative manipulation of hidden and audible from this special world below. 4 soloists will ‘drop-by’ to perform a short composed piece in the outer space at numerous times throughout each day, which offers yet another context, another time, another space that changes how we hear everything.
Karen Power : once below
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29 Aug
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Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 2:30pm - 6pm
MikroMusik Festival
Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation)
Bernauer Straße 4, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Germany
http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veranstalt_detail.php?id=876
Erik Drescher
Johnny Chang
Rishin Singh
Michelle O' Rourke
once below (2015) is a double quadraphonic sound installation with intermittent soloists, which focuses on time, place and our ever-changing contexts of hearing. The entire work is based on recordings made in a bunker underneath Gesundbrunnen Station, Berlin. Most of the sounds recorded are not audible to our naked ears. They are hidden and yet feel very real and present. These sounds themselves adhere to their own rhythm and time, in which we play little part. This work brings many aspects of Karen’s work together in a very special and unique venue; Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation). Here, the two sound installations are naturally separated through the chapel dome offering audiences the opportunity to experience a creative manipulation of hidden and audible from this special world below. 4 soloists will ‘drop-by’ to perform a short composed piece in the outer space at numerous times throughout each day, which offers yet another context, another time, another space that changes how we hear everything.
Karen Power : once below
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29 Aug
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30 Aug
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30 Aug
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Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 12pm - 5pm
MikroMusik Festival
Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation)
Bernauer Straße 4, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Germany
http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veranstalt_detail.php?id=876
Erik Drescher
Rishin Singh
Michelle O' Rourke
Johnny Chang
once below (2015) is a double quadraphonic sound installation with intermittent soloists, which focuses on time, place and our ever-changing contexts of hearing. The entire work is based on recordings made in a bunker underneath Gesundbrunnen Station, Berlin. Most of the sounds recorded are not audible to our naked ears. They are hidden and yet feel very real and present. These sounds themselves adhere to their own rhythm and time, in which we play little part. This work brings many aspects of Karen’s work together in a very special and unique venue; Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation). Here, the two sound installations are naturally separated through the chapel dome offering audiences the opportunity to experience a creative manipulation of hidden and audible from this special world below. 4 soloists will ‘drop-by’ to perform a short composed piece in the outer space at numerous times throughout each day, which offers yet another context, another time, another space that changes how we hear everything.
Karen Power : once below (2015)
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2 Sep
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 8pm
Synergy Vocals / Ensemble Modern
Musikfest Berlin
Berliner Festspiele Schaperstraße 24 10719 Berlin
Germany
+49 30 254 89-244
http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/
musikfest@berlinerfestspiele.de
SYNERGY VOCALS
ENSEMBLE MODERN
NORBERT OMMER sound projection
BRAD LUBMAN conductor
When Minimal Music was invented in the 1960s many a critic would have loved for time to simply stop: hadn’t a contemporary method finally been found that was still functional at the tonal level, and which clearly differentiated itself from the music of old Europe that was becoming ever more complex? The most important composers of the minimalist scene, however, rejected using the new technology in a dogmatic manner. It seemed like a taboo had been broken when John Adams linked the idea of emotional development and ecstasy with strict minimalist patterns in his “Shaker Loops”. The legendary work, which Ensemble Modern and Synergy Vocals present under Brad Lubman, is one of three successful attempts to seek liberation from the chaste, pure tenets of Minimal Music. What Arnold Schönberg and American cartoon music have in common can be heard in Adam’s popular “Chamber Symphony”, while Steve Reich’s “Tehillim” newly invents Hebrew psalm singing in the spirit of Minimal Music, a tradition lost in the West.
John Adams : Chamber Symphony
John Adams : Shaker Loops
Steve Reich : Tehillim
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5 Sep
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Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 7:30pm
Mozart?!
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts
United States
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/mozart.aspx
Tickets: 15-35
Present Music
The minimalist. The experimentalist. The master. We bring the music of three composers from the past and present together in a big way for our 34th season opener. Powerful percussion, passionate plural pianists, elegant woodwinds and majestic brass combine for one of our largest ensembles to date.
Join us as we connect the lines between our classical and contemporary roots. From the sumptuous warmth and vitality of Mozart’s Gran Partita and Luciano Berio’s scintillating homage to the multitextural works of JS Bach in Sequenza VIII, to John Adams energetic Hallelujah Junction and his powerful Grand Pianola Music, this event will enrapture your senses in grand fashion!
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7 Sep
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Monday, September 7, 2015 at 1.10pm
SAXOLOGY, saxophone quartet
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
The Theatre Royal, Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1QR
United Kingdom
01284 769505
http://www.theatreroyal.org
margo.pigott@artsoptions.com
Tickets: £8.50
Fiona Dermit (Soprano Sax)
Denis Hill (Alto Sax)
Jeffery Wilson (Tenor Sax)
Tracey Bridgeman (Baritone Sax)
A whole family of saxophones in one sitting! Saxology has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM, and will bring classical and romantic music, and the premiere by Jeffery Wilson of a tribute to the great jazz saxophonist, Sonny Rollins on his 85th birthday. In addition the programme includes arrangements of music from 18th-20th Centuries by Rameau, Clara Schumann (wife of Robert Schumann), Gershwin and Benny Goodman and music written for saxophone quartet by Robert Clérisse and F & M Jeanjean.
Jeffery Wilson : Calypso for Sonny
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7 Sep
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Monday, September 7, 2015 at 8pm
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Musikfest Berlin
Berliner Festspiele Schaperstraße 24 10719 Berlin
Germany
+49 30 254 89-244
http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/
musikfest@berlinerfestspiele.de
KLAUS STEFFES-HOLLÄNDER / MATAN PORAT / FLORIAN HOELSCHER / JULIA VOGELSÄNGER / AKIKO OKABE / CHRISTOPH GRUND pianos
SWR SINFONIEORCHESTER BADEN-BADEN UND FREIBURG
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER ROTH conductor
The symphonic poem “Pelléas et Mélisande” is Arnold Schönberg’s first work for a large orchestra. It was composed during his first stay in Berlin from 1901 to 1903. Schönberg initially worked there as a Kapellmeister at the Berlin literary cabaret Überbrettl and then, on the recommendation of Richard Strauss, taught music theory at the Stern’schen Konservatorium. It was also Richard Strauss who pointed him towards the drama “Pelléas et Mélisande” by Maurice Maeterlinck, recommending it as opera material. In Schönberg’s adaptation of the material, Maeterlinck’s drama is the backbone but does not serve as the content of his symphonic poem. The post-Romantic sound of the large-scale orchestra is never descriptive but transforms the story of “Pelléas et Mélisande” into a sequence of musical moods and images.
Georg Friedrich Haas’ composition “limited approximations” from 2010 integrates six micro-tonally tuned pianos into a large orchestral apparatus, unfolding a fan of iridescent harmonies, nuances and unusually rich consonances. The composition “Arc-en-Ciel” for six pianos by Russian composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky is also symphonic – an attempt to bring to light the microstructures of unusually dense harmonies in all their colour.
Ivan Wyschnegradsky : Arc-en-ciel
Georg Friedrich Haas : limited approximations
Arnold Schoenberg : Pelleas and Melisande
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