幽霊のワルツのように、そのパルス(拍動)は緩やかだ。ヴィブラートをかけない歌声はピアニッシモ以上に高まることは決して無く、フランク・オハラによるテキスト(詩)の1行:“Who’d have thought that snow falls? (雪が降るなんて誰が思ったであろうか?)”‐ は“ah’s”が約40分続いた後にようやく聴こえてくる。
Medicine Show to present Morton Feldman's "Three Voices" with
soprano Beth Griffith on June 17th and 18th
MEDICINE SHOW THEATRE, one of NYC's longest-running experimental
theatres, is pleased to announce that it will present a concert staging
of "THREE VOICES" by American composer MORTON FELDMAN. Performed
by soprano BETH GRIFFITH, whose solo recording of this piece won the
German Record Critics Prize, the event takes place on JUNE 17th and
18th at 9:30 PM at THE MEDICINE SHOW THEATRE, 549 West 52nd St., 3rd
Floor (between 10th and 11th Ave.). "THREE VOICES" is being
presented in conjunction with Medicine Show's theatrical production
of "The Republic Of Poetry." Tickets for the theatrical production
and the concert are $15; tickets for the concert alone are $10.
Reservations are available by calling the theatre at (212) 262-4216 .
For more information, please log into www.medicineshowtheatre.org.
Feldman conceived "THREE VOICES" to performed by three identical
soprano voices: a live singer performs one voice while the other two
are played back on tape over loudspeakers placed on either side of her.
According to author Paul van Emmerick, the loudspeakers are meant to
represent the tombstones of painter Philip Guston and poet Frank O'
Hara. "The composition is thus a metaphor for a conversation of a
'living voice with the voices of the dead', and is thereby not just
a memorial to Guston and O'Hara, but also a dirge for the generation
of artists to which Feldman belonged."
Each performance of "Three Voices" will begin with WILLIAM
HELLERMANN of the DownTown Ensemble doing a short reading of the
writings of Morton Feldman.
Soprano BETH GRIFFITH's solo recording of Feldman's "Three
Voices" was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplatten Kritik in
1989. She originally sang the European premiere of "Three Voices"
at a Feldman Festival in Cologne, Germany, which led to Feldman
inviting her to perform it again at a New Music America festival, the
first of dozens of worldwide invitations to follow. Ms. Griffith has
sung in festivals in Darmstadt, Witten, Bratislava, Brussels, Dublin,
London, La Rochelle, Moscow, Paris, Prague and Warsaw. She has appeared
with Sequentia, Musikfabrik, Ensemble13, L'Art pour L'Art, Cologne
Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Paris Nouvel Orchestra Philharmonique
and has worked with composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, Mauricio Kagel
and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Composer MORTON FELDMAN (1926-1987) was a contemporary of John Cage.
Under Cage's influence, Feldman began to write pieces which had no
relation to compositional systems of the past, such as the constraints
of traditional harmony or the standard system of musical notation.
Feldman was inspired by abstract expressionist painters such as Mark
Rothko and Jackson Pollack as well as poet Frank O' Hara.
MEDICINE SHOW THEATRE ENSEMBLE was founded in 1970 by Barbara Vann and
the late James Barbosa.The company is dedicated to offering creative
alternatives to conventional theatre by creating and presenting works
that experiment with language, music, movement, form and ideas. The
works are chosen to delight the mind, honor creativity, confound empty
convention, encourage active compassion and present the many facets of
the American experience within a global community.
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Regards -
Chris
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この曲に現れるパルスは幽霊のワルツのような緩やかさだ。ヴィブラートをかけない歌声はピアニッシモ以上に高まることは決して無く、フランク・オハラによるテクストの1行:“Who’d have thought that snow falls? (雪が降るなんて誰が思ったであろうか?)”‐ は“ah’s”(※1)が約40分続いた後にようやく聴こえてくる。
According to author Paul van Emmerick, the loudspeakers are meant to represent the tombstones of painter Philip Guston and poet Frank O' Hara. "The composition is thus a metaphor for a conversation of a 'living voice with the voices of the dead', and is thereby not just a memorial to Guston and O'Hara, but also a dirge for the generation of artists to which Feldman belonged."