TALEA Ensemble: à propos (Lévy, Feldman, Sciarrino)
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TALEA Ensemble
à propos: The Sonic Exhibit
Friday, November 13, 2009, 8PM
Tenri Cultural Institute (43A W. 13th St., NYC)
$15/10 (students) tickets at the door
www.taleaensemble.org
to reserve seats in advance, please email talea@taleaensemble.org
Salvatore Sciarrino: Omaggio a Burri (1995) for alto flute, bass clarinet, and violin
Morton Feldman: Why Patterns? (1978) for flute, piano, and glockenspiel
Fabien Lévy: à propos* (2008) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
*US premiere
Featuring a mid-concert discussion with composer Fabien Lévy.
performed by: Daria Binkowski, flute; Meighan Stoops, clarinet; Steve Beck and Anthony Cheung, piano; Alex Lipowski, percussion; Erik Carlson, violin; Chris Gross, cello; James Baker, conductor
The Talea Ensemble will present à propos: The Sonic Exhibit, a concert of works inspired by pieces and creators of visual art. Exploring the visual and auditory connections in these works, the Talea Ensemble sparks the imaginations of listeners with the US premiere of Fabien Lévy’s à propos (2008). Also on this concert will be works by Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino and American composer Morton Feldman. The concert on Thursday, November 13th at 8 PM takes place at New York City’s Tenri Cultural Institute (43A West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011). Admission is $15/10 (students).
Inspired by four individual artists’ work, the centerpiece of the concert is the first US performance of à propos (2008) by Fabien Lévy. Mr. Lévy, one of the most honored young French composers of his generation, currently teaches composition at Columbia University. In four parts, the work takes the listener on a “sonic exhibit” of visual art, all of different media. The first part is based on Tim Hawkinson’s motorized sculpture Deposition (2007). The second part is a take on Jeff Wall’s cinematographic photo A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) (1993) followed by part three, based on one of Alberto Burri’s abstract expressionist paintings, Grande Rosso (1964). Finally the work ends with a meditation on Giuseppe Penone’s 11-Meter Tree (1989).
The program opens with Salvatore Sciarrino’s Omaggio a Burri (1995), also inspired by the Italian expressionist, Alberto Burri. The listener will be interested to notice the musical differences in Sciarrino and Lévy’s works based on the same artist. Omaggio a Burri exists on the fringes of the audible, combining extended techniques such as bow scrapes, key clicks, and breath sounds with a notable use of silence. The final work on the program will be Morton Feldman’s Why Patterns? for flute, piano, and solo glockenspiel. Why Patterns? belongs to a series of works inspired by Turkish rugs in which Feldman’s interest in non-linear structures and narratives create interwoven sonic patterns.
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