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Environs Messiaen festival: Sound installation 3/5 10:00am
John Luther Adams’s electronic soundscapes Veils (2005) will run continuously at the Johnson Museum through March 8. The work is comprised of three separate six-hour tracks (Falling Veil, Crossing Veil, Rising Veil) designed to run simultaneously in different parts of the same space. Part of Environs Messiaen: Nature Rendered at the Keyboard; Xak Bjerken and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, directors. See http://westfield.org/environsmessiaen/ for...
Five Uneasy Pieces: Reworking the Treman Willow 3/5 10:00am
These five pieces were once part of a living heritage tree located in the F.R. Newman Arboretum, part of the Plantations at Cornell University in Ithaca New York. It was known as the Treman Weeping Willow, planted 80 years ago, around the time of the garden’s founding. In 2011, the tree had to be cut back to its base, as it could no longer support itself, succumbing to age and carpenter ants. Rather than being chipped for mulch, the sculptor,...
CU Music: Midday Music at Lincoln 3/5 3/5 12:30pm
Midday Music at Lincoln: Zoe Weiss, viola da gamba, and guest Nathaniel Cox, theorbo, perform music by Marin Marais and Robert de Visée.
Environs Messiaen festival: Keynote speaker 3/5 3/5 4:30pm
Musicology Colloquium: acclaimed author Robert Fallon (Carnegie Mellon) presents a keynote talk about Olivier Messiaen, as part of Environs Messiaen: Nature Rendered at the Keyboard; Xak Bjerken and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, directors. See http://westfield.org/environsmessiaen/ for full details.
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity 3/5 7:00pm
introduction by Sr. Lecturer Byron Suber, PMA 2014 > USA/UK > Directed by Catherine Gund For forty years, Elizabeth Streb and her troupe have pushed the boundaries of human possibility, combining dance, acrobatics, and performance art into acts of flight. This documentary dares the audience to join Streb in her ambitions, exploring her philosophy of movement and tracing the evolution of her action spectacles from her start to her troupe's...
Environs Messiaen festival: Concert 3/5 3/5 8:00pm
“Immeasurable Space” features works by Messiaen and Jolivet for organ and ondes Martenot, as well as John Luther Adams’s The Immeasurable Space of Tones, performed by guests Geneviève Grenier and Marilyn Nonken and graduate students Matthew Hall and Jonathan Schakel. Part of Environs Messiaen: Nature Rendered at the Keyboard; Xak Bjerken and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, directors. See http://westfield.org/environsmessiaen/ for full details.
Environs Messiaen festival: Composers' Forum 3/6 3/6 1:25pm
Composers’ Forum: pianist Marilyn Nonken (NYU) speaks about the use of the piano by French spectralist composers and other composers influenced by spectralism, as part of Environs Messiaen: Nature Rendered at the Keyboard; Xak Bjerken and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, directors. See http://westfield.org/environsmessiaen/ for full details.
Environs Messiaen festival: Movie screening 3/6 3/6 4:00pm
Movie screening: Caroline Martel’s award-winning documentary recounts the history of the ondes Martenot, an electronic instrument widely featured in popular and classical music, from Hollywood to Messiaen to Radiohead, as part of Environs Messiaen: Nature Rendered at the Keyboard; Xak Bjerken and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, directors. See http://westfield.org/environsmessiaen/ for full details.
Tristana 3/6 7:00pm
1970 > Spain > Directed by Luis Bu_uel With Catherine Deneuve, Fernando de Rey Tristana is a drama of willful perversity in which a young Spanish woman (Deneuve) outlives the guardian who seduced her. A dark comedy, the film is inextricably rooted in the Spanish culture of the late 60s and early 70s. Deneuve is dubbed in Spanish. Subtitled. Shown in a new digital restoration. More at cohenfilmcollection.net 1 hr 38 min
Environs Messiaen festival: Concert 3/6 3/6 8:00pm
Ensemble X; Xak Bjerken, director. Features music by composers influenced by Messiaen, including Claude Vivier’s Lonely Child for soprano and orchestra and Gerard Grisey’s Prologue for viola and electronics, as part of Environs Messiaen: Nature Rendered at the Keyboard; Xak Bjerken and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, directors. See http://westfield.org/environsmessiaen/ for full details.
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