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- Pierre Boulez Saal
CONCERT: BERIO, LUCIER, EASTMAN
EDWARD W. SAID DAYS
Joined by experimental vocalist and movement artist Elaine Mitchener, students and faculty of the Barenboim-Said Akademie draw on American cultural resistance to counter a late 20th century defined by American geo-political power. Berio writes an elegy to Martin Luther King Jr. in his O King after the civil-rights leader was assassinated in 1968. Lucier charges audiences with his quietly counter-cultural sound installation, I am Sitting in a Room. And Eastman, a forgotten voice of American music marginalized because of his race and sexuality, uses a feminist rendering of Joan of Arc to shout in defiance of concert halls the world over in his Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc and The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc.
In addition to lectures and music, the exhibition Dry, featuring works by photographer Abdo Shanan, will be on view during the Edward W. Said Days in the lobby of the Barenboim-Said Akademie.
- Duration
- 1 hour 45 minutes
- Pauses
- 1
- Web
- boulezsaal.de/event/concert-berio-lucier-eastman/2021_03_21_2000 https://boulezsaal.de/event/concert-berio-lucier-eastman/2021_03_21_2000
Cast
- Conductor
- Michael Wendeberg
- Voice
- Elaine Mitchener
- Lighting Design
- Jean Kalman
- Sound Design & Light Design
- Gilbert Nouno
- Studierende der Barenboim-Said Akademie
Concert program
Luciano Berio - O King for Voice and Chamber Ensemble
Alvin Lucier - I am Sitting in a Room for Voice and Tape
Julius Eastman - Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc for Voice
Julius Eastman - The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc for ten Cellos
