Tuesdays @ Monk Space PRESENTS
Another World at the Villa Aurora
Pianist Genevieve Lee joins members of Brightwork Ensemble to present an evening of music from another place and time. In Saariaho’s enigmatic Mirrors, performers are given a series of musical fragments, to be assembled as desired, breaking down the need for a goal-oriented order. Veronika Krausas’ Un-Intermezzi are inspired by China Miéville’s Un-Lun Dun, a haunting story of an alternate and parallel universe. George Crumb’s masterpiece Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), for three masked players bathed in blue light, takes the audience on a captivating, mysterious, and timeless journey. Altromondo (Another World), by Kurt Rhode, calls for melodicas, harmonicas, Chinese paper accordions, triangles, and antique cymbals, in addition to a number of preparations inside the piano. We are transported to a place where time is not an arrow – locations are in flux, and the music as “object” never stands still.
Program
Kaija Saariaho: Mirrors (1997)
Maggie Parkins, celloSarah Wass, flute
Veronika Krausas: Un-Intermezzi (2012)
Aron Kallay, pianoGeorge Crumb: Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players (1971)
Maggie Parkins, celloSarah Wass, flute
Traci Esslinger, piano
Kurt Rohde: Altromondo (2014)
Genevieve Lee, pianoAron Kallay, piano
Pianist Genevieve Lee joins members of Brightwork Ensemble to present an evening of music from another place and time. In Saariaho’s enigmatic Mirrors, performers are given a series of musical fragments, to be assembled as desired, breaking down the need for a goal-oriented order. Veronika Krausas’ Un-Intermezzi are inspired by China Miéville’s Un-Lun Dun, a haunting story of an alternate and parallel universe. George Crumb’s masterpiece Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), for three masked players bathed in blue light, takes the audience on a captivating, mysterious, and timeless journey. Altromondo (Another World), by Kurt Rhode, calls for melodicas, harmonicas, Chinese paper accordions, triangles, and antique cymbals, in addition to a number of preparations inside the piano. We are transported to a place where time is not an arrow – locations are in flux, and the music as “object” never stands still.
Program
Kaija Saariaho: Mirrors (1997)
Maggie Parkins, celloSarah Wass, flute
Veronika Krausas: Un-Intermezzi (2012)
Aron Kallay, pianoGeorge Crumb: Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players (1971)
Maggie Parkins, celloSarah Wass, flute
Traci Esslinger, piano
Kurt Rohde: Altromondo (2014)
Genevieve Lee, pianoAron Kallay, piano