What can you do beyond the straight presentation of the concert on a screen? THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY is Leonard Bernstein’s controversial essay on the origin of Mahler’s music using performance and intimate lecture to enhance the viewer’s understanding. Max Ernst’s famous collages, THE WOMAN WITH 100 HEADS inspired these piano preludes by his contemporary, American composer Antheil. This program sets up an unexpected dialogue between music and image in the surrealistic manner in which both works were conceived. Coping with new music and improvisation is even more difficult. SUBLIME MOMENTS is daring and courageous in its approach. Two young musicians, a trombonist and a cellist, engage in a musical conversation that gradually becomes a game, a game that illuminates the fascinating and mysterious art of the improvising musician. Even if you don’t like the music, you’ll remember this show.
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Trying to find a form to visualize the process of improvise music, it was decided to make this production an improvisation in itself. Helped by the fact that the camera… -
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Conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a televisual “essay” on the origins of Mahler’s music. With scores, anecdotes, excerpts of concerts or at the piano… -
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George Antheil’s preludes are the synthesis of his work or rather of the period that he himself coined “mechanistic”. The composer describes them as…