PROJECT ORFEO
Presented by DUKE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC and FRANKLIN HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 | 4:00 PMGeneral SeatingBaldwin Auditorium |
TICKETS
$10 | Full Price
FREE | Duke Student*
FREE | Non-Duke Student*
FREE | Youth*
* Limit 2 discounted tickets per patron, per presentation. Quantities available may be restricted. Valid ID required upon pick up.
ABOUT
A mixed-media presentation that combines readings by novelist Richard Powers with the music of Olivier Messiaen and composer Scott Lindroth, inspired by Powers’ 2014 novel Orfeo. With the Horszowski Trio (Jesse Mills, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; and Rieko Aizawa, piano), clarinetist Benjamin Fingland, flutist Laura Gilbert and Duke University faculty violist Jonathan Bagg.
Novelist Richard Powers (The Time of our Singing and The Echomaker) joins Duke faculty composer Scott Lindroth, the Horszowski Piano Trio, clarinetist Benjamin Fingland, flutist Laura Gilbert and Duke faculty violist Jonathan Bagg in a mixed-media concert that combines readings from Powers’ 2014 novel Orfeo with performances of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, and the premiere a new Lindroth composition. The mixed-media event will weave probing and eloquent passages from Orfeo around performances of both compositions, placing them in the context of the novel’s central topic, the search for a revelatory new musical language for our time. Powers’ book discourses eloquently on 20th century masterpieces, while he imagines a yet-to-be-written music for the 21st century that might be derived from existing natural and scientific phenomena. Lindroth’s new work takes up the challenge of the writer’s imaginings, creating a fascinating dialogue between composer, writer, and performer.