PROGRAM:
ORTIZ: Mujer àngel
SHAW: Plan and elevation
KAHANE: Klee
SMITH: Carrot revolution
PROGRAM:
CLEMENS NON PAPA: Ego flos campi (arr. Amy Schroeder)
BENNET: Weep, o mine eyes
CRUMB: Sarabanda de la muerte oscura (arr. Attacca Quartet)
LANG: daisy (Dutch premiére)
CRUMB: Black Angels
SHAW: The Evergreen
“The impossibly talented Attacca Quartet returns to the Calderwood stage, bringing Bartók’s pungent fourth quartet, which mixes Hungarian funk and modernism with foot-stomping ferocity. Mendelssohn’s Apollonian musicianship will be on display in his elegant E-minor quartet; the program is balanced by the premiere of a Museum-commissioned work by David Lang, who created his “in-ear opera” true pearl for the Gardner Museum’s Tapestry Room in 2018.” — Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum concert page
Program
DAVID LANG: note to a friend (West Coast Premiere)
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang has combined and reimagined three texts by iconic Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Rashomon) in note to a friend. Originally commissioned as a one-person opera by the Japan Society in New York and the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan center in Japan, this haunting monodrama addresses eternal human fascinations with death, love, family, and suicide. — SF Performances event page
Program:
DAVID LANG: note to a friend
In this 60-minute chamber opera, commissioned by the Japan Society, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang reimagines three texts by iconic Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The result is a stunning and haunting monodrama, note to a friend, addressing our eternal human fascinations with death, love, family and suicide. The work was premiered at the PROTOTYPE Festival 2023, directed by theater luminary Yoshi Oida. — UCLA Center for the Art of Performance event page
Program:
SHAW: Entr’acte, The Evergreen; IV. Root and Three Essays; Second Essay (Echo)
PAUL WIANCKO: Benkei’s Standing Death; “Part I: The Thousandth Encounter”
RADIOHEAD (arr. Nathan Schram): 2+2=5
RAVEL: String Quartet in F Major: I. Allegro moderato—très doux
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131
Program:
JOSEPH HAYDN: String Quartet in F Major, op. 50, no. 5 (“The Dream”)
DAVID LANG: daisy
FRANCIS POULENC & FRÉDÉDERIC FRANÇOIS CHOPIN (arr. Attacca Quartet): Nocturne Suite
BÉLA BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 4
Program:
JOSEPH HAYDN: String Quartet in F Major, op. 50, no. 5 (“The Dream”)
DAVID LANG: daisy
FRANCIS POULENC & FRÉDÉDERIC FRANÇOIS CHOPIN (arr. Attacca Quartet): Nocturne Suite
BÉLA BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 4