Symposium: Artists, Aesthetics and the Natural World David Bower Center UC Berkeley January 30 1-5:00 pm
The focus was on the concert I will hear this afternoon, or Olivier Messiaen's "Des Canyons aux etoiles..."
1:15---2:15 pm Artist talk with David Robertson, conductor, St Louis Symphony, and Deborah O'Grady, photographer, moderated by Performances director Matias Tanopolsky.
2:30-3:40 pm "Des Canyons aux etoiles -- "The Natural World, Immensity and Wonder".
Sabrina Klein, Cal Performances Director of Artistic Literacy explores art and the natural world with Margaretta Lovell, History of Art, UCB; Kathryn Barush, Art History Graduate School of Theology of Santa Clara University, and renowned choreographer Anna Halprin.
3:50 -5:00 pm "The National Parks: Kindred Connections of the Natural World and Creativity". A conversation on the cultural connections between access to nature and creativity environmentalist Ken Brower, Will Rogers Director of the Trust for Public Land, Caryl Hart, Director of Sonoma COuntry Regional Parks, and Johnathan Logan Jr Manager, Marin Country cOmmunity Service District and Rob Bailis, Associate Director Cao Performances.
A Champagne reception followed. Excerpts from the program on Sunday were shown...
On Sunday, I went to the pre-concert talk, where David Robertson played the oriole's birdsong and then the transcription in music, to instruct the audience in the notetaking of the composer, a photograph of him in action....as background. DR says that without the visual program whcih Deborah O'Grady has created the only reference to Zion and Bryce would be an old fashioned postcard. He shares that he spent much time in both parks in his youth. I travelled with my husband to both of these parks and will never forget the sunset against the canyons of Bryce Canyon, and agree with the composer, that it is the most beautiful of the natural sites in America, even after experiencing the colossial grandeur of Yosemite in its rock monuments and waterfalls.
Messian's wife, the pianist, Yvonne Loriod wore a gown created for the occasion of the premiere by Pierre Cardin inspired by the colors of the canyon. Alice Tully commissioned the piece between 1971 and 1974 for the American Bicentennial. It was premiered at Alice Tully Hall on November 20, 1974
Messian originally found Bryce Canyon in his large library of geographic books. He wanted to create a Geological piece honoring the park. He spent several weeks at Bryce in April of 1972. He loved the colors and shapes and "otherworldliness" of the landscape. He chose Spring in order to best hear birdsong which he transcribed. Synesthesia is so evident in this piece. "Colors are very important to me because I have a gift," he said....whenever I hear music, or even if I read music, I see colors. They correspond to the sounds -- rapid colors that turn, mix, combine and move wtih the sounds. They are always changing, but they are marvelous and they reproduce themselves each time one repeats the same sound complex. "
As for birdsong, one section (Part I Les Orioles" Part III Le Moqueuer polyglotte (the Mockingbrid)
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1:15---2:15 pm Artist talk with David Robertson, conductor, St Louis Symphony, and Deborah O'Grady, photographer, moderated by Performances director Matias Tanopolsky.
2:30-3:40 pm "Des Canyons aux etoiles -- "The Natural World, Immensity and Wonder".
Sabrina Klein, Cal Performances Director of Artistic Literacy explores art and the natural world with Margaretta Lovell, History of Art, UCB; Kathryn Barush, Art History Graduate School of Theology of Santa Clara University, and renowned choreographer Anna Halprin.
3:50 -5:00 pm "The National Parks: Kindred Connections of the Natural World and Creativity". A conversation on the cultural connections between access to nature and creativity environmentalist Ken Brower, Will Rogers Director of the Trust for Public Land, Caryl Hart, Director of Sonoma COuntry Regional Parks, and Johnathan Logan Jr Manager, Marin Country cOmmunity Service District and Rob Bailis, Associate Director Cao Performances.
A Champagne reception followed. Excerpts from the program on Sunday were shown...
On Sunday, I went to the pre-concert talk, where David Robertson played the oriole's birdsong and then the transcription in music, to instruct the audience in the notetaking of the composer, a photograph of him in action....as background. DR says that without the visual program whcih Deborah O'Grady has created the only reference to Zion and Bryce would be an old fashioned postcard. He shares that he spent much time in both parks in his youth. I travelled with my husband to both of these parks and will never forget the sunset against the canyons of Bryce Canyon, and agree with the composer, that it is the most beautiful of the natural sites in America, even after experiencing the colossial grandeur of Yosemite in its rock monuments and waterfalls.
Messian's wife, the pianist, Yvonne Loriod wore a gown created for the occasion of the premiere by Pierre Cardin inspired by the colors of the canyon. Alice Tully commissioned the piece between 1971 and 1974 for the American Bicentennial. It was premiered at Alice Tully Hall on November 20, 1974
Messian originally found Bryce Canyon in his large library of geographic books. He wanted to create a Geological piece honoring the park. He spent several weeks at Bryce in April of 1972. He loved the colors and shapes and "otherworldliness" of the landscape. He chose Spring in order to best hear birdsong which he transcribed. Synesthesia is so evident in this piece. "Colors are very important to me because I have a gift," he said....whenever I hear music, or even if I read music, I see colors. They correspond to the sounds -- rapid colors that turn, mix, combine and move wtih the sounds. They are always changing, but they are marvelous and they reproduce themselves each time one repeats the same sound complex. "
As for birdsong, one section (Part I Les Orioles" Part III Le Moqueuer polyglotte (the Mockingbrid)
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