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Rebecca Saunders
2012-2013 Season |
Thursday, April 4, 2013 8:00 PM Miller Theatre |
Composer Portraits
murmurs (2009) – U.S. premiere vermilion (2003) – New York premiere dichroic seventeen (1998) – New York premiere Onstage discussion with the composer Read this concert's full program notes by musicologist Paul Griffiths. Listen to dichroic seventeen (1998) performed by musikFabrik and conductor Stefan Asbury. This recording is available on KAIROS at www.kairos-music.com. A star pupil of Wolfgang Rihm, Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967) favors a delicate, sparse aesthetic. “From this surface of apparent silence,” the composer explains, “I try to draw out and mold sound and color.” Finding inspiration in the work of Samuel Beckett, the philosophy of Goethe, and Wassiliy Kandinsky’s writings on spirituality in art, Saunders’ seems to strip away the extraneous and ornamental in order to uncover the essential within. Her works explore the unique timbres of idiosyncratic solo instruments and chamber ensembles, all performed with thoughtfulness by the members of Either/Or. The Guardian calls Saunders “one of the most intriguing British composers of her generation,” and for good reason. |
 Photo by Katrin Schander |
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