Quand
30 – 31 August
7 heures du matin
This performance will last 60 minutes, no interval
Coût
A Little Extra $60
Standard $40
A Little Less $20
Get ready for a rhythmic fusion of science, sound and art, in this epic percussion masterwork Le Noir de l’Étoile, lead by Gerard Grisey. Join the ANAM Percussionists as they embark on this unique musical journey through one of the great works in the percussion ensemble repertoire.
Composed in 1990, this evening length work is framed with the electro-magnetic recordings of rotating neutron stars that are millions of light years from earth. The pulsing energy of the cosmos is converted into sound, and in a brilliant weaving of live performance and electronics, we hear a rich counterpoint that emerges in this hour length work
Gerard GRISEY Le Noir de l’Étoile
Peter Neville (Head of Percussion) director/percussion
ANAM Percussionists
A propos de
Gerard Grisey
One of the most intriguing composers of the last century. With works that explore time, death and the transitory nature of art and sound, his music stands as some of the most strident in the contemporary repertoire.
Gérard Grisey was born in France in 1946. He showed an early interest in music, and began composing at the age of nine. He traveled to Germany to study music at the Conservatory of Trossingen (1963-1965), then returned to France to enroll in the Conservatoire de Paris, where he pursued a classic curriculum, receiving degrees in harmony, counterpoint, and fugue, and excelled in music history and piano accompaniment. At the same time, he took composition with Olivier Messiaen (1968-1972), studied with Henri Dutilleux at the École normale de musique (1968), and learned electroacoustic techniques with Jean-Étienne Marie (1969).
His residency at the Villa Médicis from 1972 to 1974 was the occasion of several important encounters, notably with poet Christian Guez Ricord, and discoveries, notably the music of Giacinto Scelsi. Classes with Ligeti and Stockhausen, and, to a lesser extent, with Xenakis, which he attended in 1972 during the Darmstadt Summer Course, would bolster his own musical passions and exert an enduring influence on his work.
In 1973, Grisey took part in the founding of Itinéraire, whose goal was to promote a nascent reperoire with specific needs through quality performances. A course in acoustics taught by Émile Leipp at the University of Paris VI (1974-1975) would lay the foundations of Grisey’s scientific approach to sound. Starting in 1982, he began an intensive teaching career, first at the University of California, Berkeley (until 1986) and then at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), where he taught orchestration and composition. Grisey died on 11 November 1998 of a ruptured aneurysm.
