Moving pictures, picture music

Monday, March 30, 2009 8 pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum
701 Mission Street at 3rd Street, San Francisco
Pre-concert talk begins at 7:15 pm.

Program:
Alessandro Solbiati, Sestetto à Gérard (2006) (U.S. premiere)
Philippe Hurel, Loops IV (2005)
Tristan Murail, Cloches d’adieu, et un sourire… (1992)
Tristan Murail, La Mandragore (1993)
François Paris, A Propos de Nice (2008) (U.S. premiere)
       Accompanied by the film of Jean Vigo.

Featuring:
Daniel Kennedy, percussion
Julie Steinberg, piano

The ensemble looks forward by looking back in this concert of music by composers whose work has been influenced by the spectralist movement of the last century. David Milnes and the ensemble have a “dialogue across the years” with legendary filmmaker Jean Vigo as they provide a live soundtrack to a screening of Vigo’s classic 1930 film. Gérard Grisey, Olivier Messiaen, and the looping reels of a tape deck all provide inspiration for other works in this magical evening where the past, present and future meet.

Composers François Paris and Alessandro Solbiati will participate in a pre-concert talk, moderated by David Milnes.

$28 general, $23 senior, $10 student
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