Name: Program Ten • Berlioz’s Transformation of the World of Sound
Start: 2024-08-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Fisher Center

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Fisher Center at Bard

Bard Summerscape

Bard Music Festival

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Bard Festival Wind Ensemble

New Hudson Saxophone Quartet

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Anna Polonsky

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Program Ten • Berlioz’s Transformation of the World of Sound

Annandale

United States

Fisher Center

Olin Hall

Program Ten • Berlioz’s Transformation of the World of Sound: Chant sacré, H 44 Berlioz (+9 More)

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Chant sacré, H 44

Fantaisie et variations sur 'Le carnaval de Venise'

Andante in C major, TrV 155

Romance in D minor, Op. 62

Andante et Scherzo

Density 21.5

Le Merle noir

Clapping Music

Sequenza V

6 Bagatelles

Maria Cueto Crespo

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Berlioz’s innovative instrumental soundscapes had an extraordinary and liberating impact on the composers who followed. Program Ten pairs his Chant sacré, in a reconstruction of the lost version for saxophones, with a sampling of the unorthodox sonorities he helped inspire. These include pieces respectively showcasing the cornet, by virtuoso cornetist Baptiste Arban; bassoon, by Edward Elgar; and French horn, by Richard Strauss, who edited and updated the Treatise on Instrumentation. Such works helped open the door for some of the 20th century’s most adventurous sounds, by Berlioz’s compatriots Edgard Varèse and Olivier Messiaen, who shared his focus on timbre; Italian experimentalist Luciano Berio, whose trombone showpiece calls for extended techniques and theatricality; and American minimalist Steve Reich, whose Clapping Music eschews traditional instrumentation altogether. The program concludes with Six Bagatelles for wind quintet by Hungarian modernist György Ligeti, for whom timbre and texture were both vital structural elements.

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Program Ten • Berlioz’s Transformation of the World of Sound by Berlioz, Arban, Strauss, Elgar, Bozza, Varèse, Messiaen, Reich, Berio, Ligeti, From (2024/2024), Fisher Center, Annandale, United States

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